If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people around the world.
If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head 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 ina dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still married and alive, you are very rare.
If you hold your head up with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read anything at all.
Source: Middlesbrough Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission Newsletter
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