$20 Bill

A well known speakerstarted 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'm going to give this $20 to one
of you but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the $20
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 floor and started to grind it into the floor with
his shoe. Crumpled and dirty, he asked, "Now who still wants it?"
Still the hands went up 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.
~Author Unknown~

Psalm 17:8 states that God will keep us, "as the apple of His eye."
YOU ARE SPECIAL...DON'T EVER FORGET IT!