The Good Life Message
If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people and retain all existing human ratios of the world... This is what that village would look like:
There would be
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 would be from the western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be females
70 would be non white, 30 would be white
70 would be non Christian, 30 would be Christian
6 would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the USA
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death, 1 would be near to birth
1 (yes only 1 ) would have a college degree
1 would own a computer
When you consider the world from such a perspective the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
Here's something to think about:
If you wake up this morning with more health than illness....you are more blessed than the million people who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisionment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
I you attend a Church meeting without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death......you are more blessed than 3 billion people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep peacefully..........you are richer than 75%
of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet and some change in a dish by your bed, you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.
If your parents are alive and still married...you are very rare...even in the USA.
If you can read, you are more blessed than 2 billion people in the world who can not read at all.
Work like you don't need money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's lstening and live like it's Heaven on Earth.
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