my little world

its been a whirlwind of a week or two for me and my little life =/

Lots of different unexpected changes, lots of emotional ups and downs and most of all it had to all start once the rain began again here in wonderful Oregon just to add that little touch of dark depression.

I had a loooooong work week last week being that I offered to do two days of OT at work to help out my fellow support team, six days of getting up at 4:45a.m. is kind of tiring added with emotional upsets. I skipped the gym last weekend because I was just too pooped after my OT days to try and hit up the gym. I basically slept, some what ate and went to work for six days straight while day dreaming most the day of fix's to my little worlds problems.

Luckily, on Thursday night after work I had a wonderful evening with two close friends, Matt & Kelsey. Kelsey invited me to stay for dinner and her food was scrumptious and I ate way too much! We all talked, I was given solid out side the situation advice and ended the night with lots of laughter =) I was on the road to feeling better. Saturday came, and I spent a much needed evening with the fiance and we talked and came to some positive agreements to our little worlds problems.

If you know me you know that I am NOT a believer when it comes to FAITH and if there is a hire being for this world, however I read a story last week that I kind of fell in love with and I wanted to share it with you all for a reminder of when your little world feels like it is falling apart. Take from it what you want, I know I did.

What Happens In Heaven - Author Unknown

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.’
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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 section. 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 can attend a ceremony 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 want, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.

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