$20.00
Sometimes
we just need to be reminded!
A well-known speaker started off his seminar by:
holding up a $20.00 bill.
In the room of 200,
he asked,
"Who would like
this $20 bill?"
Hands started going up.
He said, "I am going to give
this $20 to one of you
but first, let me
do this.
He
proceeded to crumple up
the $20 dollar bill.
He then asked,
"Who still wants it?"
Still the hands
were up in the air.
Well, he replied,
"What if I do this?"
And he
dropped it on the ground
and started
to grind it into the floor
with his shoe.
He picked it up,
now crumpled and dirty.
"Now, who still wants it?"
Still the hands went
into the air.
My friends, we have all learned a
very valuable lesson.
No matter what
I did to the money,
you still wanted it
because it did not decrease in value.
It was still worth $20.
Many times in our lives,
we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt
by the decisions we make and
the circumstances that come
our way.
We feel as though
we are worthless.
But no matter what has
happened or
what will happen,
you will never lose your value.
Dirty or clean,
crumpled or finely creased,
you are still
priceless to those who DO LOVE you.
The worth of our lives comes not in what we do
or who we know,
but by WHO
WE ARE and
WHOSE WE ARE.
You are
special
-
Don't
EVER forget it.
If you do not pass
this on, you may never know the
lives it touches, the
hurting hearts it speaks to,
or the hope that it
can bring.
Count your blessings,
not your problems.
"And remember:
amateurs built the ark ..
professionals
built the Titanic.
If God brings you to
it - He will bring you through it.