Abundance

If you were to shrink the earth’s population to a village of 100 people, it

would look something like this:

52 would be female, 48 would be male

70 would be Non-Christian, 30 would be

Christian

6 of them would be Americans. These 6

would have over half of the world’s wealth.

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from mal-nutrition,

1 would be near death, l near birth.

1 would have a college education,

1 would own a computer.

Education and pay for people 18 and older (1998):

•No high school diploma $16,124•High school diploma $22,895•Some college, no degree $24,804•Associate degree $29,872•Bachelor’s degree $40,478•Master’s degree $51,183•Doctoral degree $77,445•Professional degree $95,148Does it pay to go to school?Does it pay to go to school?

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 a non-dirt floor in the place you

live, you belong to the upper half of the

world’s most prosperous people.

If you have a window, a door and more than

one room, you belong to the upper 20 percent

of the world’s richest people.

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 church without fear of harassment, arrest or torture, or death, you are more blessed than 3 billion people in the

world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on you back, a roof over head and a place to sleep you are richer

than 57% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare

change in a dish some place you are among

the top 8% of the world’s most wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married

you are very rare, even here in the United

States and Canada.

Regardless of where you live, if you can read and you have a pair of shoes, a change of underwear

and can choose from two or more foods to eat, you

belong to the top 10 percent of the world’s

most wealthy.

We are the World

United States has the benefit of abundance and the responsibility to share

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