Something To Ponder

 

 

Picture This…

 

 

If the Earth’s population would shrink to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following…

 

 

 

57 Asians

 

21 Europeans

 

14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south

 

8 would be Africans

 

52 would be female

48 would be male

 

30 would be white

70 would be non-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

 

1 would be near death

 

1 would be near birth

 

1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education

 

1 (yes, only 1) would own a computer

 

 

And, therefore…

 

 

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, we realize the acceptance, understanding, and education.

 

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 woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the 50 million who will not survive this week.

 

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 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 never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the harshness of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

 

If you can read or hear this message, you are more blessed than the over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.

 

Be Thankful! (Indeed!)