Battle Depression with Thankfulness

Whether we realize it or not, today we have many things to be joyful for:

 If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million people who won't survive the 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 twenty million people around the world.

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

 If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head, and a place to sleep, you are richer than seventy-five percent of this world.

 If you have money in the bank and in your wallet, you are among the top eight percent of the world’s wealthy.

 If your parents are still married, you are very rare, especially in the USA.

 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 hold someone's hand, hug them, or touch them on the shoulder, you are blessed because you can offer God's healing touch.

 If you can read this, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read anything at all.