AND SO SO LUCKY!

Give thanks!Help others!

There comes a time when we heed a certain call

When the world must come together as one

There are people dying

and it’s time to lend a hand to life

The greatest gift of all

We can’t go on pretending day by day

That someone, somewhere will soon make a change

We are all a part of God’s great big family

And the truth, you know

Love is all we need

We are the world, we are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day

So let’s start giving

There’s a choice we're making

We're saving our own lives

it’s true we'll make a better day

Just you and me

Send them your heart so they'll know that someone cares

And their lives will be stronger and free

As God has shown us by turning stones to bread

So we all must lend a helping hand

We are the world, we are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day

So let’s start giving

There’s a choice we're making

We're saving our own lives

it’s true we'll make a better day

Just you and me

When you're down and out, there seems no hope at allWhen you're down and out, there seems no hope at all

But if you just believe there’s no way we can fall

But if you just believe there’s no way we can fall

Let us realize that a change can only come

When we stand together as one

We are the world, we are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day

So let’s start giving

There’s a choice we're making

We're saving our own lives

it’s true we'll make a better day

Just you and me

We are the world, we are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day

So let’s start giving

There’s a choice we're making

We're saving our own lives

it’s true we'll make a better day

Just you and me

We are the world, we are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day

So let’s start giving

There’s a choice we're making

We're saving our own lives

it’s true we'll make a better day

Just you and me

If you were to shrink the earth’s population to a village of 100 people, it would look something

like this:

52 would be female, 48 would be male

70 would be Non-Christian, 30 would

be Christian

6 of them would be Americans. These 6 would have over half

of the world’s wealth.

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from mal-nutrition,

1 would be near death,

l near birth.

1 would have a college education,

1 would own a computer.

Education and pay for people 18 and older (1998):

•No high school diploma$16,124

•High school diploma$22,895

•Some college, no degree$24,804

•Associate degree$29,872

•Bachelor’s degree$40,478

•Master’s degree$51,183

•Doctoral degree$77,445

•Professional degree$95,148

Does it pay to go to school?Does it pay to go to school?

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 a non-dirt floor in the place you

live, you belong to the upper half of the

world’s most prosperous people.

If you have a window, a door and

more than one room, you belong to the

upper 20 percent of the world’s richest

people.

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 church without fear

of harassment, arrest or torture, or death,

you are more blessed than 3 billion people

in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator,

clothes on you back, a roof over head and a place to sleep you are richer than 57%

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 most wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still

married you are very rare, even here in the United States

and Canada.

Regardless of where you live, if you can

read and you have a pair of shoes, a change of underwear and can

choose from two or more foods to eat, you

belong to the top 10 percent of the world’s

most wealthy.