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
When one considers our world from such a small 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 US 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.