From Trisha

$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.