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     The Christmas season can be very stressful and many people get depressed as the bills pile up and  one starts to consider what they don't have that others do have. Let me give you some things to reflect on:

• If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes to wear, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.
• If you wake up tomorrow with relatively good health, you are more fortunate that the million who won't be living this time next year.
• If you have some money in the bank , in your wallet or purse and spare change on the dresser, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
  
• If you can attend church without fear of persecution, harassment, arrest, torture or death, you are more blessed that three billion people in the world.
• If your parents are still alive and still married, you are very rare!
• If you have never experienced the danger of battle unfolding all around you. 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 have ever used a telephone, you have done something that 80% of the world's people will never do.
  
• If you can read this blog, you are more blessed that over two billion people in the world who can not read at all.

Count your blessings!  Remember the greatest story ever told, the story of a Savior born as a baby, his birth foretold in Genesis 3:15  to the serpent..."And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."                                                                                                                  photo by telethon

Even after Adam and Eve sinned,  God gave them a glimpse of his plan of Salvation.