You are priceless to those who love you

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by 

holding up a dollar twenty ($20) bill, in the room

of two hundred (200) people. Speaker asked, 

"Who would like this dollar twenty ($20) bill?" 

Hands started going up.

Speaker said, "I am going to give this dollar twenty 

($20) bill to one of you but first, let me do this." 

He proceeded to crumple up the dollar twenty ($20) bill. 

He asked, "Who still wants it?" Still hands were up in 

the air.

"Well, what if I do this?" 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 asked, 

"Who still wants it?" Still hands went up into the air.

My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson. 

No matter what was done to the money, it was still 

wanted because it did not decrease in value. 

It was still worth dollar twenty ($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 may feel as though we are worthless and useless.

But no matter what has happened or will happen, 

you will never lose your value: dirty or clean, crumpled

or finely creased, you are still priceless to those 

who love you.

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