Posted on 12/20/2009 4:34:01 AM PST by malkee
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 Aknowledgment 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 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.
Back in 1994 I had a real-life near-death experience and it wasn’t either positive or negative. Everything just went black but it wasn’t a bad black.
Everything just went black but it wasn’t a bad black. ............................ I can say that about my Colonelcy.
“colonoscopy”!
Oh good grief....
Heaven is still stuck in the 18 th century...
This year I had to have heart surgery to correct a birth defect that I had never known about. I had spent 7 years in the Infantry and it never bothered me. I hit 44 and it almost killed me. In the emergency room, they had to stop and then restart my heart - I was awake for that .... not fun.
It was an electrical problem. Plumbing was fine, no blockages, no messed up valves, just the wiring got screwed up and led to a rapid heart rate ... the ER nurse stopped counting when the pulse / calculation she did went over 210 beats / min. I had been in that state for over an hour before I got to the ER. The nurse looked at me like she was seeing a ghost.
Later when I went in for surgery to burn the short circuiting nerve in my heart, they had to shock me twice on the table. I even had the electrical burns on my chest / back to prove it. They dont use the paddles any more. There are pads that they attach to you instead.
Three times this year I almost died. Believe me when I say that every day I wake up and thank the Lord for all that he has blessed me with and the very fact that I am still here to enjoy my wife and kids.
When you are granted a reprieve from the reaper, you tend to appreciate each min you have as a special coin and take special care in how you spend it. Will I spend this min being angry at my children or my spouse? Do I really need to spend this time away from my family at work. Sometimes, answers to those questions become rather painful but at least they bring clarity.
Considering the “progress” of the 20th Century, I’m kinda thinking that might be a good thing.
My version of heaven is the ability to explore the whole universe without the limitations of physics. All questions answered, all sins forgiven, all anger and pain forgotten. Just all awareness.
Lots of democrats are having a similar near-death experience in 2008, but the more they think about it, the more uncertain they are about the good/evil part of it.
They say there are 3 sets of keys, held by God the Son. They are the keys of birth, the keys of death, and the keys of Hades.
food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep
Above words were my mother’s litany. We were richly blessed!
Merry Christmas to all!
Very sorry to hear about that awful experience. But I love your attitude.
My heart also beat 200+ BPM but for 15 straight hours. I was diagnosed with PTSD about 6 months after this happened and haven’t felt the same since. Chronic chest pains, shortness of breath, etc. but nothing shows up on x-rays or other tests.
Eventually lost nearly all personal possessions and haven’t yet rebounded.
I remember as a teenager, I would get so mad at God and repeatedly beg Him for a Book of Job type experience and existence, just to prove I could get through it.
Weird that a few years later that what happened happened.
If you have not already, seek out an “electro cardiologist”. They are specialized in the treatment of the electrical system of the heart. You may be one of the 2% of people with a similar heart defect. Be mentally prepared for a significant battery of tests.
Coming at you from the futuristic 21 Century... :)
...”and if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity.”
The world population is 7 billion. 1% is 70 million.
There must be at least 70 million computer uses in the United States alone, so I would question that 70 million computer users in the entire world “statistic.”
I like your heaven.
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