Just a thought..

If we could shrink the Earth's population into 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; eight 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.
• six people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all six would be from the United States.
• 80 would live in substandard housing.
• 70 would be unable to read.
• 50 would suffer from malnutrition.
• one would be near death; one would be near birth.
• one [yes, only one] would have a college education.
• one would own a computer.

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent. Interesting, isn't it?

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 pains 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. 
 
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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