Let's Count our Blessings, Not Everyone is Fortunate as we are

Life is not fair. Yes of course! It's never been fair and it will never be. Each and everyone of us are blessed differently. Some people are blessed with incredibly superior and powerful advantages while others are born with crippling disadvantages. Let's  count our blessings! Some people are not as fortunate as we are. We may have food for three meals today but there are people out there with nothing to eat for just one meal.

 We may have our homes for shelter with warm beds, pillows and blankets. But there are people and families out there who live on the streets under the heat of the sun and the biting cold of the night.

We may have clothes, shoes and sandals to protect our bodies while others have hardly enough to cover themselves.

If you have hot food on your table and some in your fridge, clothes on your back, a roof on your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than the 75% of the people in this planet.

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

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million people who will not survived this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of war, the agony of imprisonment and torture, or the horrible pangs of starvation, you are luckier than the 500 million people alive and suffering.

If you can read this blog you are more fortunate than 3 billion people in the world  who cannot read it at all.

Life may not be perfect, every dream may not be fulfilled, every material need may not be achieved and everyday may not be as peaceful and stress free as we hope, but we are fortunate than most people in this world.

So as we struggle for the day to day challenges and responsibilities of our lives, as we work and sometimes hope for a little more of everything in life, we should not forget to count our blessings and most of all to be ever grateful to GOD for what we have received and continue to  receive.

Being grateful to GOD may also be well expressed by sharing our blessings too to those in need.

Life is not fair! But so what? There's nothing that can be done to eliminate the unfairness, yet there's plenty that can be done to thrive and prosper in spite of it, and even because of it.