Klarinet Archive - Posting 000756.txt from 2000/11

From: thearney@-----.net
Subj: [kl] Happy Thanksgiving
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:01:55 -0500

When you back away from the table and are
too full to pick up your horn, think on this:

Be happy and be thankful.

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

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 people in the world.

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

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

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

If your parents are still alive and still married...
you are very rare, even in the United States.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your
face and
are truly thankful...
you are blessed because the majority can, but
most do not.

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

Have a good Thanksgiving season, count your
blessings, and pass this
along to remind everyone else how blessed
we all are.

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