This is to my Youth Group Leader, Pete, who shared with us this message today.
You are so blessed
Just think about it
You have fresh water
Every time you are thirsty
You have food to eat
Every time you are hungry
You have a roof over your head
Every time you are tired
You are just so blessed
8% of the world owns a car
You are so rich
It may be a beat up, rusty Volkswagen
But you are so rich
In the USA $20 billions of dollars are spent by citizens every year on ice cream alone
Insane
Isn’t it?
Thinking of those huge numbers
When millions of people around the world live on less than $1 a day
Imagine being scared to death for your life and safety just walking to school
That bus with the screaming kids and smelly seats you ride everyday?
You are so blessed to have that instead of walking three miles for a so-so education
That new top you just bought off the designer rack at the store?
There are so many who go without proper clothes to keep them warm each day
Every 6 seconds a child dies of hunger
Today, millions of people haven’t eaten
And millions of those millions are children
Younger that you
Starving
Have you ever been truly hungry in your life?
It’s doubtful
Very
That computer screen you are staring at right now?
That is just a fantasy for millions
To own such a thing
How many people wake up to find their child lying dead next to them?
How many girls are sold by their own families to strangers?
How many people find themselves working to death in fields thousands of miles from home?
Too many
The numbers would astonish you
Millions live in boxes
While others live in mansions
How many numbers does it take?
How many deaths and stories and tears does it take?
For you to see
Just how blessed you are
How much you have that others long and yearn for
That is just a fantasy for millions
Because you are so blessed
Next time you pick up your ipod, TV remote, or car keys
Remember
Remember just how rich you are
Even if others are richer
You are still so, so rich
And beyond belief
You are blessed
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