(This was sent to me by my brother-in-law Johnson)

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, north and south

            8 Africans

            52 would be female

            48 would be male

            70 would be nonwhite

            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 (yes, only 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 worlds 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.