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, both north and south
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
89
would be heterosexual
11
would be homosexual
6
people would possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth
80
would be in sub-standard 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’ve 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 amongst the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.
If
your parents are still alive and still married, you are very rare, even in the
USA and Canada.
If
you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone
was thinking of you. Furthermore you are more blessed than over 2 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..
IT’S
NATIONAL FRIENDSHIP WEEK…SEND THIS TO A FRIEND.