Email from MaryEllen (loved it and wanted to share)

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.