$20
A well-known speaker started off his seminar
> >
> > by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200,
> he asked,
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> > "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.
> >
> > 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.
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