If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

There would be:

• 57 Asians
  
• 21 Europeans
  
• 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
  
• 8 Africans
  
  
• 52 would be female
  
• 48 would be male
  
  
• 70 would be non-white
  
• 30 would be white
  
  
• 70 would be non-Christian
  
• 30 would be Christian
  
  
• 89 would be heterosexual
  
• 11 would be homosexual
  
  
• 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
  
  
• 80 would live in substandard housing
  
• 70 would be unable to read
  
• 50 would suffer from malnutrition
  
  
• 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
  
• 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
  
• 1 would own a computer
  
  When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent. The following is also something to ponder...
  
  
• If you woke up this morning with more health than illness

• If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation

• If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death

• If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep

• If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace

• If your parents are still alive and still married

• If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing