The 20Dollar Bill (Author Unknown)
A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a twenty dollar bill.
There were 200 people in the room gathered to hear him speak. He asked, "who would like this twenty-dollar bill?"
Hands started going up.
He then said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you. But first permit me to do this.
He then proceed to crumple up the $20 dollar bill.
He then asked, "Now who wants it?"
Still the hnads 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.
"And now, how still wants it?"
And 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, by by who we are and whose we are.
You are special! Don't ever forget it!