You Are So Blessed

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness,
you are more blessed than the million
who won't survive the 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 20 million people around the world.

If you attend a church meeting
without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death,
you are more blessed
than almost three billion people in the world.

If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back,
a 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 world's wealthy.

If your parents are still married and alive,
you are very rare.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face
and are truly thankful,
you are blessed because the majority can,
but most do not.

If you can hold someone's hand, hug them
or even touch them on the shoulder,
you are blessed because you can offer God's healing touch.

If you can read this message,
you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world
that cannot read anything at all.

You are so blessed in ways you may never even know.


~ Anonymous ~

4 comments:

RAV Jr said...

im so blessed to have stumbled your blog...

im so blessed to have read your thoughts...

im so blessed to have realised i have friends...

i will so blessed..if you will exchange links with me, hehehe...

JO said...

thanks! link away Dops.

RAV Jr said...

hahaha...ang dami mo palang blogs Jo, hehehe...ganda nito dito...

puro ba to mga poems mga nandito?

JO said...

yup, this blog is a collection of poems and short stories I received thru emails or found somewhere else.