the value of life

[candicoatedpain]

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.

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.