^*^*^I dreamt^*^*

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 ahead of 700 million people in the world."

"If you go to the masjid 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.