[StBernard] What Happens

[Westley Annis]

	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." 
			 
			"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 ahead of 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 your parents are still alive and still married
...you are very rare ." 
			 
			"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not
the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and despair." 
			 
			Ok, what now? How can I start? 
			 
			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. 
			 
			ATTN: 
			 
			Acknowledge Dept.: "Thank you Lord, for giving me
the ability to share this message and for giving me so many wonderful people
to share it with." 
			
			
			
			If you have read this far, and are thankful for all
that you have been blessed with, how can you not send it on???? I thank God
for everything, especially all my family and friends!!   
			 
			Blessings with love