Hands started going up. He said, I am going to give this $100 dollar bill to one of you but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the 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 in 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 is stll worth $100 dollars.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by 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.

(author unknown)