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20 Dollar Bill

 

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 the $20 dollar 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? "

 

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. "