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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's 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 ahead of 700
million people in the world.
"If
you can attend a church meeting without 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 are 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!
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