Albright United Methodist Church
128 South Palm Street, Ponca City, Okla.74601, PHONE: 580-765-6432, albrightumc@sbcglobal.net

2-05-07
WHAT HAPPENS IN HEAVEN


I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around.
We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels.

My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said,
"This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer
are received."

I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels
sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps
From people all over the world.

Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.

The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section.
Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and
delivered to the living persons who asked for them."

I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard
at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were
Being packaged for delivery to Earth.

Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a
very small station To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there,
idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section," my angel friend
quietly
admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed

"How is it that there is no work going on here?" I asked.

"So sad,"   the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that
they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments  "

"How does one acknowledge God's blessings?" I asked.
"Simple," the angel answered.  Just say, "Thank you, Lord."

"What blessings should they acknowledge?"  I asked.

"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead
and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world.   If you
have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish,
you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy."

"And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the
world
who has that opportunity."

Also .....

"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ... you
are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day."

"If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...
you are better off than 700 million people in the world."

"If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture
or death, you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in
the world."

"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique
to all those in doubt and despair."

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that
someone
was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two
billion
people in the world who cannot read at all.

Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you want, pass this along to
remind everyone else how blessed we all are.

Attention:  Acknowledge Dept:

"Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability to receive this message and
for giving me so many wonderful friends to share it with."




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