Saturday, November 01, 2008

Contentment

If you keep your food in a refrigerator, your clothes in a closet, if you have a bed to sleep in and a roof over your head, you are richer than 75% of the entire world's population.
...and be content with such things as ye have...
Hebrews 13:5
No matter how poverty is defined, if I were an unborn spirit, condemned to a life of poverty, but God allowed me to choose which nation I wanted to be poor in, I'd choose the United States. Our poor must be the envy of the world's poor.
- Walter Williams
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Seneca, Epistles
The "poor" in the U.S. according to Robert Rechter of the Heritage Foundation
46% own their own home (3BR, 1.5BA, garage, porch/patio)
80% have A/C
89% have microwave
3/4 own a car, 31% have two or more cars
97% have a TV, 1/2 have two or more TV's
78% have a DVD or VCR
62% have cable or satellite
1/3 have dishwasher
1/3 both land line and cell phone
There are people clinging to the bottoms of trucks for the chance to be poor in this country.
- Michael Graham
Imagine how happy you would be if you lost everything that you have...then got it back.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

This is one of the items on my mission statement...Be content in what you have, because what you have is pretty good (i.e. money is not the solution). Thanks for the reminder.