Boy are we blessed!
Passed on from a friend in the US. Original source unknown
If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following.
There would be:
57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere both North
and South, 8 Africans
52 would be female, 48 would be male, 70 would be non-white, 30 would be white
70
would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual, 11 would be
homosexual, 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would
be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing, 70 would be unable to read, 50 would suffer
from malnutrition, one would be near death, one would be near birth, one (yes, only
1) would have a college education, and one would own a computer
When we consider our
world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding
and education becomes glaringly apparent. The following is also something to ponder.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness... you are more blessed
than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment,
the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...you are ahead of 500 million people
in the world. If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest,
torture, or death... you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
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 someplace...you are among the top 8% of
the world's wealthy. If your parents are still alive and married...you are very rare,
even in the United States and Canada.
If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful...you are
blessed because the majority can, but most do not. If you can hold someone's hand,
hug them, or even touch them on the shoulder...you are blessed because you can offer
a healing touch.
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing
in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over
two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
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