A well-known speaker started off his seminar 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” he said, ” 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.
This month marks the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the legal decision that has caused approximately fifty million babies to be murdered in the place they should have been safest, their mother's womb. Since then, children have been taught that life is worthless unless it perfect and convenient: not by our words, but by our actions.
LORD, have mercy on us all.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. Psalm 139:13
Amen! Amen! A wonderful lesson which needs to be spread around!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Charlotte.
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