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.

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.