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vkm91941

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Count your Blessings
« on: June 14, 2006, 04:08:42 am »
We all have seen time and again and read account after account of how this extraordinary film has touched so many lives from all walks of life.  As most of you know I turned the big 50 earlier this week and it gave me pause for a moment or two.  A very dear friend and fellow brokie sent me the following list of blessings I want to share with you all


 
 :) 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 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, a meeting, a political rally 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 still 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 while many cannot.   

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


  :-* Have a good day my friends and count your blessings!  :-*

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Re: Count your Blessings
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2006, 05:29:45 am »
That is so beasutirul...
"We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?" --"Nine Lives," by Ursula K. Le Guin, from The Wind's Twelve Quarters

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Re: Count your Blessings
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2006, 11:17:02 am »
That is so beautiful...

Agreed....thanks Vic!

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Re: Count your Blessings
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2006, 12:50:42 pm »
You're welcome!  :D

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Re: Count your Blessings
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2006, 01:06:24 pm »
Thanks, Vicky, it's true--and I do now 'specially as I'm supposed to get out of the hospital tomorrow, yipee!

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John
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Re: Count your Blessings
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2006, 01:18:15 pm »
That's great news, John! I'll put in a requisition for a specially great day tomorrow!
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Re: Count your Blessings
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2006, 01:34:42 pm »
Thanks, Vicky, it's true--and I do now 'specially as I'm supposed to get out of the hospital tomorrow, yipee!

xxx
John
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Awesome John...glad to hear it!

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Re: Count your Blessings
« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2006, 01:36:38 pm »
 :-* John so happy to hear you're doing so well!  Heaven could not shower enough blessings on you my friend.  You deserve all that your heart can hold.
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Re: Count your Blessings
« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2006, 01:50:09 pm »
Great to hear you are leaving the hospital John!  :D :-*


Victoria - thank you for helping us remember our blessings lest we forget!  :-*
There is so much to be thankful and grateful for!


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Re: Count your Blessings
« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2006, 11:01:39 pm »
Victoria -- we can never have enough reminders like this -- so much of one's feeling of happiness is rooted in one's perspective.  thanks for the post -- Alec
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