Thanks.

In case you're looking for some reasons to be thankful this week, here are a few:

1. In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty".

2. Every year 15 million children die of hunger.

3. One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5.

4. Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people.

5. 3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.

6. Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.

7. Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger.

Gives us some perspective...doesn't it?

"When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been intrusted with much, even more will be required." - Luke 12:48b NLT