A different view

If you were to compare the world to a village with one hundred inhabitants, this township would consist of:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Americans (North and South)
8 Africans
52 women - 48 men
70 non-whites - 30 whites
70 non-christians - 30 christians
89 heterosexuals - 11 homosexuals
6 people would possess 59% of the world's riches
6 people would have the US nationality
80 would be homeless
70 would be illiterate
50 would be dependant on someone else
1 would die, 2 would be born
1 would own a PC
1 would hold a diploma

Looking at the world in this way, understanding, acceptance and study are required.
If you woke up this morning and you're not ill, you will be luckier than the 1 million people who will die in the next few days.

If you never suffered war, loneliness, starvation or injury, you are luckier than 500 million people in the world.

If you can go to church without feeling threatened, without being arrested or killed, you are luckier than 3,000 million people in the world.

If you have food in the fridge, have clothes to wear, a roof over your head and a bed to sleep in, you are richer than 75% of the world's inhabitants. .

If you hold a bank account, have cash in your purse or some small change in a box, you are among the richest 8% in the world.

If you can read this, you are doubly blessed, because

1. Someone thought of you
2. You do not belong to the 2,000 million people who cannot read
and
3. You own a PC!

(From a church magazine)