Did You Know?... 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; 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; 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 birth; 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education;
and only 1 would own a computer.
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 US and Canada.
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.
Posted on
Thursday, August 7, 2008
by Brad Dohm