If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people and retain all the existing human ratios of the world…this is what that village would look like:
There would be…
- 57 Asians
- 21 Europeans
- 14 would be 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
- 93 would be heterosexual, 7 would be homosexual
- 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 to giving birth
- 1 (yes only 1) would have a college education
- 1 would own a computer
When you consider the world from such a compressed perspecive the need for acceptance, understanding, and education becomes glaringly apparent.
Here’s something to think about:
- If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…you are more blessed than the million people 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 the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death…you are more blessed than 3 billion people in the world.
- If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep peacefully…you are richer than 75% of this world.
- If you have money in the bank, in your wallet and some change in a dish by your bed, you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.
- If your parents are alive and still married…you are very rare…even in the USA.
- If you can read, you are more blessed than over 2 billion people in the world who 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 and live like it’s Heaven on Earth!!!
Marinate on that…
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