[vacets-gen] Forward to friends - Holiday Greetings. Are you lucky?

[Tho Vu]

I think many of you have seen this before, but it's still a good reminder
for all of us. 


Are you lucky?

   "If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof
overhead and a place to sleep ... you are richer than 75% people of this
world.

   "If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a
dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

   "And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the
world who has that opportunity.

   "Also..."If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you
are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day.

   "If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... you are
ahead of 700 million people in the world.

   "If you can attend a church or a temple meeting without the fear of
harassment, arrest, torture or death ... you are envied by, and more blessed
than, three billion people in the world.

   "If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare.
If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you are unique
to all those in doubt and despair."

   If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that
someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than
over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.

   Happy Holidays!