If you have a roof over your head, food on your table, clothes on your back, a place to sleep, if you have all these, you are better off than 75% of the world’s population.
If you have money in the bank, some spare change in your pocket you are reckoned to be among the top eight per cent of the world’s wealthy people.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, remember that there are more than a million people who will die before end of the month.
If you have never known the horror of war, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of famine and starvation, remember there are millions who have suffered some or all of these.
Because you can come here to this, your church, without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death, remember there are millions who are not so privileged.
If you can hear my words remember there are many who do not have the wonderful gift of hearing. There are many more who can indeed hear but never really listen.
If you can read and appreciate the words of today’s hymns, remember the many millions of people in the world who cannot read at all.
If you can see and appreciate what is around you, remember there are many who do not have this wonderful gift.
If you can hold someone’s hand in friendship, if you can hug someone you love, this is one of the greatest gifts of all.
If you can freely offer a smile of friendship to others, you are lucky, because, many can but many do not. So now, everyone please, lets smile together.
Thank you!