[StBernard] In Heaven

[Westley Annis]

WHAT  HAPPENS IN HEAVEN  

This  is one of the nicest e-mails I have seen and is
so  true:  

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
care  to, 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 with whom to  share it. "  

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!!