2004-12-24, 12:18 PM
2004-12-24, 03:11 PM
Merry Christmas everyone.
This Christmas season, keep the following in mind.
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 the world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and some spare change in a dish some place ... You are among the top 8% of the worlds most wealthy.
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 expericeced 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 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 more blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on the sholder ... You are blessed because you can offer healing touch.
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing 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 day, count your blessings and pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.
Wish you a holy, happy and Merry Christmas
P38
I wish i could take credit for writing this, but I received it from a friend who received it from another friend.
2004-12-24, 11:03 PM
yes, happy christmas to everyone and to all your families, lets hope its a peaceful, restful and enjoyable christmas for all
cheers
anyweb
2004-12-25, 07:17 PM
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Holiday Greetings (Politically correct version)
GREETINGS:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit our best wishes
for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress,
non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice
holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the
religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your
choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or
traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or
secular traditions at all, and a fiscally successful, personally
fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of
the generally accepted calendar year 2005, but not without due
respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose
contributions to society have helped make this country great, (not
to imply that this country is necessarily greater than any other
country) and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical
ability, religious faith, or sexual preference of the wishee.
Legal Terms and Conditions:
By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms. This greeting
is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with
no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher
to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is
void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of
the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the
usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the
issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and
warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish
at the sole discretion of the wisher.
In other words, Happy Holidays!
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