A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00
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>>Hands started going up.
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>>He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you
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>>but first, let me do this.
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>>He proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill.
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>>He then asked, "Who still wants it?"
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>>Still the hands were up in the air.
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>>Well, he replied, "What if I do this?"
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>>And he dropped it on the ground
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>>and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.
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>>He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.
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>>"Now, who still wants it?"
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>>Still the hands went into the air.
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>>My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson.
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>>No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it
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>>because it did not decrease in value.
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>>It was still worth $20.
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>>Many times in our lives,
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>>we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt
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>>by the decisions we make and
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>>the circumstances that come our way.
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>>We feel as though we are worthless.
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>>But no matter what has happened or
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>>what will happen, you will never lose your value.
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>>Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased,
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>>you are still priceless to those who DO LOVE you.
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>>The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we
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>>know,
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>>but by WHO WE ARE.
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>>You are special- Don't EVER forget it."
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>>If you do not pass this on, you may never know the
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>>lives it touches, the hurting hearts it speaks to,
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>>or the hope that it can bring.
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>>Count your blessings, not your problems.
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>>And remember: amateurs built the ark ...
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>>professionals built the Titanic.
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>>If God brings you to it - He will bring you through it.