How blessed we are
 

This illustrates how truly fortunate we are.

After you're done with the first picture, click on it and it will go to the next, and so on. So click on the link below and

enjoy!

https://docs.google.com/presentation...=m#slide=id.p4

Thanks for posting this. :smiley:

Simply beautiful. The pic's are amazing too!!!

I've always been grateful/thankful to be one of the fortunate ones. I thank God everyday for my family, friends and so far very healthy. I give thanks to be smart enough to earn a decent living so I could enjoy a few luxuries in life.

What really keeps me grounded in my gratefulness is my job takes me to downtown Detroit through some really rough neighborhoods. I see the homeless people out in this freezing cold sleeping on benches or sitting on milk crates with signs to collect money. It breaks my heart but I always pause and give thanks for everything that I have.

I'm very happy to learn about how privileged I am and that I should "have a nice day". Although, I can't help but think this information comes with a "hidden" agenda. Perhaps the agenda is to encourage Americans to be more charitable?

This reminds me of the saying: "A man felt sorry for himself and looked down and saw he had no socks. Then he looked at the man next to him, and that man had no feet.

We all are very fortunate to be wealthy and healthy enough, to be grateful for what we have. It's the people, who have fallen on hard times, that need help.

What a great reminder to pause and give thanks for all that has been given to us.

Coming attractions:
 

A national wealth tax: Step one is to inform everyone about how unfair life is for 80 percent of the world's population, while highlighting the fact that 6% of Americans possess 59% of all the world's wealth. Did I get that right?

Check picture number 3 and read the first thing on the list in bold print. It says, "6 people would possess 59% of the wealth and they would all come from the U.S.A."

So don't be surprised if someone eventually proposes a national "wealth tax", "world wealth tax", or possibly both. It's coming. In case some of you don't know, or have forgotten, we had it in Florida, many years ago. It was called an "intangible tax". It was not a tax on earnings; it was a yearly tax on the value of all your stocks and bonds - a wealth tax.

It's fine to be happy about all of your blessings in life, and I am, but I'm also a realist.

I am grateful I can just enjoy beautiful postings of this sort and not immediately suspect someone's hidden agenda. Enjoy it today, 'cause you may not have tomorrow.

I have a dear friend from back home in the coalfields who doesn't have a high school education but works everyday cleaning houses to make ends meet. Her husband died of cancer unexpectedly and very quickly four years ago. They didn't have health or life insurance. She has never accepted one penny of any sort of welfare or public assistance. I was talking to her just before Christmas and she was telling me how her grandson, who is living with her, and a group of teenagers in his ROTC, helped a needy family from those beautiful mountains.

She told me about how proud she was of him and how blessed she is and how much more she has than many, many people. Most of us, including myself, would consider her far, far below the poverty level. Not her. She's rich in her own eyes and the eyes of her grandson. I could cry thinking about how generous and beautiful she is and how much I've gained knowing her.

I don't mean to take anything away from the beautiful presentation. I think it is very thoughtful and should make each and every one of us thank God for our health and fortunes; whatever the amount and whatever we consider our wealth and fortune. It is certainly easy to forget that none of us has a promise of tomorrow and the true measure of a person isn't in his wallet.

bk, beautifully said.

Maybe that's why seniors are such easy targets for fraud; they take everything at face value - never suspecting anything.

a very nice, simple approach to putting us (= anybody in the world) into an understandable/relateable perspective.

Thank you.

Great post Brenda Kay. :smiley:

A very wise man once told me: "Never compare yourself to others, as you find richer and poorer people. Only compare yourself, to where you are, and where you want to be".

If I have my health, I can always work for more money. If I don't have my health, then I am poor not so much in money but in one's spirit and love of life. One's friends will always sustain you, in times of trouble, by their generous spirit. At least my friends will. :smiley:

Just my personal philosophy.