True Value

Our Value A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill.
In the room of 200 people 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 the bill up.
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?" he asked.
Still the hands went into the air.

"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson," he said. 
"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 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 in God's eyes. 
To him, dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless."
The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know,
but by who we are.




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