A little perspective...

• 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 experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... you are ahead of 500million 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 you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep... you are richer than 75% of this world
• if you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy
• 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 even touch them on the shoulder... you are blessed because you can offer healing touch
• if you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and further more you are blessed than over two billion in the world that cannot read at all.

Sunday, 30th August, 2009. St. Thomas More, Bateman - homily
True all these 'feel good' things may seem irrelevant sometimes, and definitely feels cliche more often than not, but maybe sometimes, just sometimes, they remind us something we've just forgotten or put aside at the back of our minds.