This is from a friend on another list --something to remember----
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> >Subject: a $20.00 bill
> >>
> >> 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 dollar bill up. 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, 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 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 come not in what we do or who we know, but by
WHO
> > WE ARE.
> >>
> >> You are special - Don't ever forget it.
> >>
> >> Count Your Blessings, not your problems.
Camilla Flintermann, CG for Peter 82/70/55
Oxford, Ohio
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