Happy New Year!!!

A few more hours to go and we'll be saying goodbye to 2008 and welcoming 2009. Although this year has not been good to some of us - most even had a pretty tough time- what with the economic crisis we've been through. More than anything else, let us all just be thankful for whatever we are blessed with and have right now.

Why should we be grateful? I found this good article in my Inbox to remind us of the reasons why.


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


You are richer than 75% of this world.


*If you have money in the bank, in your wallet and a spare change in a dish some place...


You are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.


*If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...


You are more blessed than the million who will not survive this 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 in the world.


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


You are more blessed than three billion people in the world.


*If your parents are still alive and married...


You are very rare, even in the United States.


*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 healing touch.


*If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore...

You are blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.


Have a good day, count your blessings and pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.

You are wished a prosperous New Year!!!



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