Keeping Everything in Perspective
Posted by Brad Walker at 12/7/2007 9:55 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
As the Christmas season approaches it is easy to get caught up in the commercial world of Christmas. Many people forget what it is truly about. And that is Jesus' birthday. We are so lucky to live in a country where we can still pray,go to church and worship the One True God. I typically don't make very many religious type comments because that is just not my nature, but it pains me to see Christmas become diluted the way it has the several years. Especially since it is not even considered politically correct to say "Merry Christmas" anymore because we might offend someone of another religion. Now that offends me.
The paragraph below comes from a daily email I get from Zondervan. I think it speaks loud and clear as to how lucky we are to live in this country.
It's very easy for us to remain aloof and untouched by the suffering that defines the existence of the vast majority of people on this planet. I have read that if you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead, and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75 percent of the people in this world! If you have any money in the bank and some in your wallet and some spare change in a dish somewhere, you are among the top 8 percent of the world's wealthy; 92 percent have less to live on than you do! 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 other people in the world. If you can attend worship services at church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
The paragraph below comes from a daily email I get from Zondervan. I think it speaks loud and clear as to how lucky we are to live in this country.
It's very easy for us to remain aloof and untouched by the suffering that defines the existence of the vast majority of people on this planet. I have read that if you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead, and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75 percent of the people in this world! If you have any money in the bank and some in your wallet and some spare change in a dish somewhere, you are among the top 8 percent of the world's wealthy; 92 percent have less to live on than you do! 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 other people in the world. If you can attend worship services at church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
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