Food for thought: $20 bill

This has circulated around FB and email and various other places. I tried to determine who the speaker mentioned is, but came up empty handed. If any readers know who is behind this, I would love to know. I think this is a story worth sharing (true or not, what it says is PERFECT and certainly applicable).

On the way home yesterday, I read a sign in front of a church that had this on it: "A man is rich according to what he is, not what he has." Just another little tidbit worth sharing. I know that walking away from "stuff" can be difficult. I'm sure several of you have been there and understand that. I get it. I lived it. But, at the end of the day, it's all just stuff. But who we ARE...I mean, who we REALLY, TRULY are, now that's important. And we can't let others tell us who we are. We can't let others hold us down. And no one can keep us away from God, except ourselves. So, enough of my typing, on with the $20 bill story...

The $20 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 in God's eyes. To Him, dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to Him."