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:--

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 USA.

80 would be living 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, only1) would own computer..

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

And, therefore...

If you have food to eat, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep,
you are richer than 75% of the people of this world.

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 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 people.

If you can attend a church or temple congregation 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 agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

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

As you read this and are reminded how life is in the rest of the world, remember just how blessed you really are!

God Bless You!