i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)

Buckeroomama, Hong Kong

Becky, Philadelphia

i am never without it (anywhere i go you go,my dear; 
and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
Emily, Japan

Maddy, New Jersey/NYC

i fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)
Sonya, The Netherlands

i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
Jen, Phillipines

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
Isabel, Malaysia

and whatever a sun will always sing is you
Sarah, Georgia

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
May, Germany

Caroline, England

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
Wanda, Canada

Jennifer, Germany

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
Rikako, Japan

Katie, Indonesia

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) 
by e.e. cummings

How do you say it?

{French} Heureux

Jenn, Philipines

{Italian}  Felice

 Sonya, Netherlands

{German} Glücklich

Isabel, Malaysia

{Portugese} Feliz

Buckeroomama, Hong Kong

{Greek} ευτυχής

Becky, Philadelphia

{Spanish} Feliz

Sarah, Atlanta

{Russian} счастливо

Caroline, England

 {Chinese} 愉快

Wanda, Canada

{Romanian} Fericit

May, Germany

{Dutch} Gelukkig

Jennifer, Germany

{Japanese} 幸せ

In every language it looks the same-

Happy.

Happy Tuesday.

we are blessed

Sarah, Atlanta

Wanda, Canada

Becky, Philadelphia

Lola, Utah

Maddy, New Jersey/NYC

Rikako, Japan

Rocio, Mexico

Buckeroomama, Hong Kong


Salma, Canada

Sundays in my City

Sunday Citar

Sunday Snapshot

If we could shrink the earth's population

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following.  There would be:

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south

8 would be Africans

52 would be female

48 would be male

70 would be non-white
30 would be white

70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian

89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.

80 would live in substandard housing

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from malnutrition

(ONE)1 would be near death;

(ONE)1 would be near birth;

(ONE)1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education;

(ONE)1 (yes, only 1) would own a computer.

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

And, therefore . . .

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 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 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 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 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 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 are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.

As you read this and are reminded how life is in the rest of the world, remember just how blessed you really are!