Just a Reminder

• The poorest 5% of Americans are richer than 68% of the world’s inhabitants.
• If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than seventy five percent of the people in the world.
• If you can attend a church or synagogue meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you have the freedom that three billion people in the world do not have.
• At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.
• Almost two in three people lacking access to clean water survive on less than $2 a day, with one in three living on less than $1 a day.
• Millions of women and children spend several hours a day collecting water.
• Some 1.8 million children die each year as a result of diarrhea caused by unsanitary water.
• In 2005, the wealthiest 20% of the world accounted for 76.6% of total private consumption. The poorest fifth just 1.5%.
• A mere 12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its water, and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.
• 10.6 million children died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (same as children population in France, Germany, Greece and Italy).
  
  It is so easy to focus on what we don't have.  I challenge you today to make a list of the top ten ways you are blessed.