We Are Soo Blessed

[OpaQue 15]

We Are So Blessed

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive the week.

 

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pains of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people around the world.

 

If you can express your beliefs without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed that 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 worlds wealthy.

 

If your parents are still married and alive, you are very, 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 own just one Bible, you are abundantly blessed. 1/3 of the world does not have access to even one.

 

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

 

 

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,

be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly;

and listen to others,

even to the dull and ignorant;

they too have their story.

 

Avoid loud and aggressive persons;

they are vexations to the spirit.

 

If you compare yourself with others,

you may become vain or bitter,

for always there will be greater

and lesser persons than yourself.

 

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble,

it's a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

 

Exercise caution in your business affairs,

for the world is full of trickery.

But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;

many persons strive for high ideals,

and everywhere life is full of heroism.

 

Be yourself.

Especially do not feign affection.

Neither be cynical about love;

for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,

it is as perennial as the grass.

 

Take kindly the counsel of the years,

gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

 

Nurture strength of spirit

to shield you in sudden misfortune.

But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,

be gentle with yourself.

 

You are a child of the universe

no less than the trees and the stars;

you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you,

no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

 

Therefore be at peace with God,

whatever you conceive him to be.

And whatever your labors and aspirations,

in the noisy confusion of life,

keep peace in your soul.

 

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,

it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful.

Strive to be happy. 

[jlhaslip 4]

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

[OpaQue 15]

I know.. thats the very same reason i quote all the messages I post.

[unicornrose 0]

Did you know that a smile is universal? You can give perfect strangers that gift. Yeah sure sometimes the gift will not be returned but you will be surprised how many times it will be returned. Its amazing sometimes how a smile will brighten a stranger's face. It wil brighten their day and you will feel good too.