Today is Tuesday, June 1. This is our daughter Merry's birthday. She would have been 48. She was an 'emailer' of lots of pass around emails.
Little did I know that it would stop so suddenly 22 years ago. I had saved only nine of them. I tend to share one of them each year. No doubt you have read this one before!
A couple of memories of Merry first.
When she was in early elementary, Clarion would have a 'crazy parade' at its summer Ridiculous Day. I had cut holes in a box for Merry's head and arms, covered it with all kinds of labels and plastered "I am Recycled" in several places on the box, as she participated in the parade.
Afterwards, she said to us, "Why did you make me walk down the street with signs saying , "I am retarded!" * Merry had the privilege of representing our school in the National FFA Band, playing her French horn.
When she got home, she came downstairs, showing us that she had a set of towels from the hotel where they stayed in Kansas City.
"I didn't take them, Mom, honest! Someone had to have put them in my suitcase!" she said.
We didn't work to return them. I am sure the Clarion- Goldfield School had to pay for them!
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PRICELESS
"We've all go to remember this:
"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 dollar 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 all 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 to Him."
"Psalm 17:6 states that God will keep us 'as the apples of His eye.
"THOUGHT: "The worth of our lives come not in what we do or who we are but by WHOSE WE ARE!'
"You are special. Have a great day!!
"Lord, I thank You for delivering me from the need to be right about everything." ***
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