This is something I happened upon while busying myself…. maybe you have seen it before. I have, but it just hit me in another way this time when reading it. We are still valuable and priceless not only to God but to those that truly love us. The part about who we are and whose we are….. we know we are Gods, but what hit me really hard on reading that part again is not just about being God’s as for whose we are, but about belonging to each other…. the bonds of a friendship that’s more family than friends. Saying “I love you” doesn’t come so easy for me and when I say it, it’s not said lightly or just tossing the words out there. For three people who are my heart…. I love you John, I love you Blake, I love you Dawn. You are special and priceless to me.

Sometimes We Just Need to be Reminded!
A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 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 up the $20 dollar bill.

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, 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 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. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who DO LOVE you and God. The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO WE ARE and WHOSE WE ARE. You are special – Don’t EVER forget it.”

Count your blessings, not your problems. And remember: amateurs built the ark… professionals built the Titanic…if God brings you to it – He will bring you through it.

“EXCEPT YE BECOME AS A LITTLE CHILD, YE SHALL IN NO WISE ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD!” (MAT.18:3)

It pays to be a little child. In fact, Jesus Himself said, “Suffer the little children to come unto Me, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” (Mk.10:14)

We’re to be like little children, loving, sweet, simple believers.–In childlike faith, believing & receiving all that the Lord has for us!

Children are samples of the citizenry of Heaven!–Like little angels dropped from the sky! They’re so fresh from Heaven, they understand & are not the least bit fearful when it comes to the things of the Lord & the Spirit & even spiritual experiences. It is given to children to be rich in faith! Faith just comes natural to them. They are so fresh from Heavenly places that they have faith to believe anything God says, & with them nothing is impossible!

The problem with many grown-ups is that they know too much!–They’ve been educated out of their childlike faith! But there are others of trusting childlike faith who are daily doing things that doubting intellectuals say can’t be done! So be like a little child & anything wonderful can happen!

I know this to be true for it happened one day in my distress and anguish that I called out to the Lord ”When will this pain end?” It was not until years later that I saw this verse and just sat with my jaw wide open.

Psa 119:82 “My eyes fail, looking for your promise; I say, “When will you comfort me?”

Oh I can not describe in words the power that came over me… the COMFORT. Being the human that I am, that comfort only lasted for a little while as I began to once again go in my own direction. Thus in doing so causing more turmoil and complications in my life. What’s ironic is that in going in my own direction, that direction would lead to a fall! So when I choose my own direction, it is like I choose to fall. Well, God is a God who does not fail in His promise. When He responded with “the pain and suffering stops now,” He meant it. How is this possible when I keep causing my own demises?

Job 2:11” When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.”

God sent a comforter, aka a pillow to soften the fall. Thus although we may fall, it does not hurt so bad when we fall into the arms of a comforter (or in laymen’s terms… fall flat on our rear ends). At this time I even questioned myself about calling a ‘friend’ a comforter as opposed to calling Jesus ‘the comforter.’ But then I am reminded that Jesus sends us friends to act as a comforter IN HIM and IN HIS LOVE.

2Cr 1:4 “who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.”

God sends His children who can share in the knowledge, not just of Him and in Him, but of this world who can relate and share so that when we do fall, the fall is softened because we can see with our own eyes that it is possible to go on living in Him and through Him even when we stumble. What a blessing it is when I am given His Love through others so that I may also do the same.

Perhaps calling them Pillows may be simplifying their purpose here on Earth, but for me, what greater purpose could there be other than to fulfill the Covenant of Jesus… Love God, Love your neighbor and not just by saying the words, but living it!

Originally posted by Cindy

A friend so dear to my heart sent this to me today. It’s one of the most moving and amazing videos I’ve ever seen. To say it’s moving and inspirational is putting it mildly. Share it with those you care for and love.

Originally posted by Cindy