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 ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity.
Also ... If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ... you are more blessed than the millions who will not even survive this week because of their afflictions.
If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of, or the pangs of hunger and starvation ... you are spared of the agony of 700 million people in the world who are less fortunate.
If you have religious choices without fear of harassment, arrest, or death... you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world.
If your parents are still alive and still happily married ... you are very rare and very fortunate.
If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you are unique to the millions who are in doubt and who live in despair.
I try to remember these things all year long, but Thanksgiving really reminds me.
~TC




