The
global village:
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
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
30 would be white
70 would be non-white
30 would be Christian
70 would be non-Christian
11 would be homosexual
89 would be heterosexual
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 take part at a church service without
being tortured, discriminated, locked away or being killed.....you are more blessed
than .3 billion people in this 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.
Are your parents still alive and even marriaged with each other ......you are a rarity, even in the USA and Canada.
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Sing like nobody's listening
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.