this is no longer my blog

I came across this website Global Rich List, where you enter your annual income and it puts you on a continuum compared to everyone else in the world. I typed my income, which is by no means extravagant here in America, and I'm still in the top 12.83% with only 5,230,168,175 people coming in as poorer than me... Kind of puts all the Gospel readings into perspective, when they talk about woe to the rich, and in the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man. I may feel like I'm scraping by, with just enough to pay my bills and buy food and perhaps a little extra. But I'm wealthy. And I need to remember in the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus, when the Rich Man is in Hades because he took his wealth for granted and ignored the needs of those around him, even those right outside his door, that it speaks against me just as much as it speaks against the Bill Gates and Warren Buffetts of the world.