I had an epiphany last night while I was drying the dishes. There weren’t many, and I was using the activity to wind down for bed. I picked up our big kitchen knife, and as I was drying it, I looked at it a little closer… I saw it. I realized the significance of this tool. For literally millions of people, this knife would be a tremendous upgrade over what tools they currently have available. It’s not an overly expensive knife; it came in a set from Macy’s. And then I thought about how technologically advanced the knife was, how easily and efficiently one's able to prepare food with it. All the cooks who ever cooked a meal in Europe during the Middle Ages couldn’t imagine such a capable knife. Two thousand years ago, such a tool would be a complete marvel and would transform a person’s life. This tool simply sits in my kitchen drawer, one of many. What a life of luxury many of us lead. We adapt to things so easily, and many of us have never known anything different, so it’s easy to understand why it can be hard to experience profound gratitude. It’s all the more convenient to focus on what’s not going right, to complain about life’s strifes and struggles. But the bottom line is there is a percentage of the world that enjoys absolute luxury compared to anything our species has ever known, and we have the knowledge and capability to bring this quality of life to every single human being on the planet. If we elevate our collective global consciousness, it can be done. Such perspective balances on the edge of a knife.