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If you woke up this morning
  with more health than illness,
you are more blessed than the
  million who won't 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 20 million people around the world.

If you attend a church meeting without fear of           

        harassment, arrest, torture, or death,
           you are more blessed than 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 world's wealthy.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face

 If you can read this message, you are more blessed 

      than over two billion people in the world
              that cannot read anything at all.

We are all so blessed in ways we may never even know.

            When we wake up in the morning

                till we lay our heads to rest,

      WE  ARE  BLESSED     -    WE  ARE  BLESSED!