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
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 world's 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.
