If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, 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 in a dish someplace you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.

If you awoke this morning with more health than illness you are more blessed than a million who will not survive this week.

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 a religious gathering without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you can read this you are blessed than the over two billion in the world who cannot read at all.