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From: "Gayle Campbell" <>
Subject: Fw: The Worth of our Lives
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 16:53:54 -0000

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From: "R. Strahl" <>
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Subject: Fw: The Worth of our Lives


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Martha Waugh <>
> To: <>; <>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 9:05 PM
> Subject: Fwd: The Worth of our Lives
>
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> >
> >
> >
> > >From: "demays" <>
> > >To: "Martha Waugh" <>, "Mark Helmick"
> > ><>, "Marcia E. Rowe" <>,
"Jim
> &
> > >Elenora Phillips" <>, "Dale & Sue Keller"
> > ><>, "Delmar & Earnestine Helmick"
> > ><>
> > >Subject: The Worth of our Lives
> > >Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 23:54:38 -0500
> > >
> > > > 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
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > 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 onto everyone 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!!!
> >
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