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I’m not rich.  I’m Mr. Middle class income.   Being self employed, there can be some really good years.  There can also be some with negative income for the whole year!  Rich guys have jets and island getaways.  Not me.  I ought to slide right through the eye of that needle.  Maybe how rich we are depends on our threshold of what we consider “rich”.  Consider, if we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be:

57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from North and South America, 8 Africans

52 would be female, 48 would be male

70 would be non Christian, 30 would be Christian

89 would be heterosexual, 11 would be homosexual

6 people would possess 60% of the entire wealth and all 6 would be from the U.S.

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

We are too too blessed to be stressed.  I’m so rich I don’t even know it.  The poorest person in America is incredibly rich!

I woke up this morning with more health than illness.  I’m already richer in health than the 1 million who will not survive this week.

I’ve never experienced  imprisonment, torture, or starvation.  I’m already richer than 500 million people in the world.

I can attend church without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death.  I’m richer than three billion people in the world.

I have food in the refrigerator, clothes on my back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep.  I’m richer than 75% of this world.

I only have a couple of bucks in the bank, $27 in my wallet, and spare change in my glove box.  I’m among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.

I can read a Bible verse.  I’m richer than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

We are too blesssed to be stressed.  Keep it in perspective.  When Jesus talks of the difficulty for a rich man entering Heaven,  He’s talking to me.
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