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 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 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.

If you can read this message, 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

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