WALKING AWAY FROM THE PAIN
There was the urge to do another mind relieving blog on the political dramas ensuing about the Sunday 3rd of June 2012 Dana airplane crash in Nigeria (the alleged President's wife's involvement, suspension of aviation agencies' heads, e.t.c.), but an afterthought swayed my interest the opposite way.
I had to dig this up so that in the midst of all the pain some succour can be found in the fact that there is some measure of blessing those of us alive still possess, no matter the pain.
This is a modified version of a mail I once received from a friend a very long time ago titled:
WE ARE BLESSED!
*If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million people 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 pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people around the world.
*If you attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, or torture of death, you are more blessed than almost three billion people in the world.
*If you have food at hand, 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 some place, 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 of us can, but most do not.
*If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read anything at all.
*When you compare our day to day problems with bigger problems around the world our troubles may not seem so large.
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