25
November 2000
Subject:
Count Your Blessings
Dear
Ones,
Blessings to you and yours as we take another marble out of the
jar on this Saturday morning.
Don
COUNT
YOUR BLESSINGS
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 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 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. Please pass this on to anyone in
your email address book. You will never know the lives it touches, the hurting
hearts it speaks to, or the hope that it can bring.
Count Your Blessings, not your problems.