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Thanks to Mr. Tio who shared the following post. 

One  of the nicest e-mails ever that I ever seen - an analogy of what happens when we pray, author unknown. Do be thankful to the God in whom you believe.

What Happens When We Pray?

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 you can hold  your head up and smile, you are not the  norm, you're unique to all  those in doubt and despair......."

"Ok,"  I said. "What now? How can I start?"

The  Angel said, "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..........

ATTN: Acknowledge  Dept.

"Thank  you Lord, for giving me the ability to share  this message and for giving me so many wonderful  people with whom to share it."

If  you have read this far, and are thankful for all  that you have been blessed with, how can you  not send it on? 

I  thank God for everything, especially all  my family members and  friends.  A M E N.