Just a Penny...

Описание: Pennies -- If you look close enough, you can find them just about everywhere you go. People drop them all the time. And they don’t usually pick them up...because it’s “just a penny”. Pennies are so insignificant to most of us that our current administration is saying that it doesn’t make sense anymore to make cents.

The key is looking. And it takes time to look. Let’s face it, most of us are in such a hurry that we don’t have time to look...especially for pennies.

However, most of us will always stop for what we consider valuable.

But most of us don’t consider pennies valuable. Especially when they are dirty. Or scratched up and defaced. Or “heads down, tails up”. So, we don’t stop.

Why do I stop and pick up pennies? Because they still have value. And it reminds me that all people everywhere have value. Even if they are dirty. Or scratched up, scarred and defaced. Or “heads down, tails up”. For me, they are a reminder – every person I meet has value. And sometimes I have to go out of my way to find them.

Everyone has a story. Everyone has value. If we will only slow down and SEE. If we will only take time to HEAR.

One penny, a 1943-D Lincoln, bronze wheat penny was sold for $1.7 million in a private sale in 2010. And the reason that it was so valuable – it was considered a “mistake”. An “accident”! PS – And today, that same penny is reported to be worthy $2.3 million!!

Who knows? That “mistake”. That “accident”. That “heads down, tails up”, dirty, disfigured person that you try not to see every day may be an angel sent from heaven. It may be Jesus in disguise.

How much value does that next person you meet have? How willing are you to go out of your way to see them? How willing are you to truly listen to them? To actually love them in deed and in truth, not just with our lips and our words?

"I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!" - Matthew 25:40