A well known speaker started off his seminar by
holding up a $20 dollar bill in the room of 200 people
and 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 the dollar bill up. He then
asked, "Who still wants it?" Sill, the hands were up
in the air.
"Well," he continued, "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, you 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 is still worth $20.
"Many times in our live, we are dropped, crumpled, and
ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the
circumstances that come our way. We feel as if 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 love you."
"The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who
we know, but in who we ARE. You are special. Don't
ever forget it."
pass this on to those people who mean something to
you. you will never know the lives it touches, the
hurting hearts it speaks to, or the hope it can bring.
count your blessings, not your problems.
love,
Mags and Brian
np: Dante's Prayer, Loreena McKennitt, live in Paris
and Toronto
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