A group of kids were bored one rainy day and decided to make a trip to the corner store. Some kids in the group had spare change in their pockets and some kids had nothing. On their way, they came across another friend and asked if he wanted to come along with them. The other friend explained that he did not have any change in his pocket to buy anything, but what he did have was an old, crumbled bill which he found lying in the mud. He said because it was soiled, wrinkled and muddy, it was not worth anything and the store clerk would probably not take it because of how it looked.
The store clerk did not have many visitors that day due to the rainy-day making business slow. The boy went directly up to the clerk, laid the dirty bill on the counter and asked if the bill he found in the mud was of any value.
The clerk said, while wiping off the bill, “son, it does not matter if the bill is wet or dry, clean or dirty it still does not lose its value”. It happened to be a $20 bill, and the kid was able to buy for the others who did not have any money.
“Many times, in our lives, we are dropped, stepped on, crumpled, and ground into the mud by the choices we make and situations that happen. We may feel as though we are worthless, of no value. But know this, no matter what happens, you never lose your value or your worth.
Moral: Our circumstances or situations do not define us. Dirty, clean, wet, soiled, or crumpled up, we are priceless. The worth of our lives comes not from where we are or where we’ve been, but from who we are and Who we belong to.
