Have you counted your blessings???

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Dear Travellers to Heaven in TBP,

 

Love and Love alone....

 

I do not remember whether I sent this to you earlier. Even if I did,

let me send it again, as it is worth reading again and again and

time and again. Let us count our blessings and forget about the

bitterness and blaming others for our miseries.

 

Love and Love alone.....

 

P. Gopi Krishna

 

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Have you counted your blessings???

 

This is one of the nicest 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'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,

God. " " 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 prayer meeting without the

fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and

more blessed than, three billion 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. Attn:

Acknowledgment Dept: Thank You God! Thank you God, for giving me the

ability to share this message and for giving me so many wonderful

people to share it with " .

Gopi Krishna <gopi