Found this in an old email. It’s one of those emails that you’re suppose to pass on… God at the end only applies to whoever it applies to. 

A well-known speaker
started off his seminar by:

 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, 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 and
 WHOSE WE ARE.
 You are
 special
 -
 Don’t EVER forget it.”

 Count your blessings,
 not your problems.


 ”And remember:
 amateurs built the ark ..

 professionals
 built the Titanic.

 If God brings you to
 it - He will bring you through it.