The World in Perspective...

 

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, north and south
        8 Africans
        52 would be female
        48 would be male
        70 would be nonwhite
        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
        1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
        1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
        1 would own a computer       

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective,
the need for 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 worlds wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.

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.

Someone once said...

What goes around comes around. Work like you don't need the money.  Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.  Sing like nobody's listening.  Live like it's Heaven on Earth.