You are priceless

[Gabzmom]

I have been feeling a little anxious, scared, and frightened - by what?  And I am letting someone's words make me feel about two inches tall.  I know they are just words and that I am so much better than how this person makes me feel.  I used to have so much vim and vigor and I don't know that I have it in me to "prove" them wrong. 

 

What's so strange, is I ran across this tonight and it's a good reminder.  We are priceless.  We are loved. 

 

A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 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 the 20 dollar note up. He then asked. "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air.

 

"Well," he replied, "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. "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 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 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 by ...WHO WE ARE.

 

You are special - don't ever forget it...!!

 

[BrokenHeart2]

Thanks for this new perspective GM. That was a good one!

[lcoxwell]

I had heard this once before, but it has been a while. Thank you for sharing, and for the reminder that each of us has value.