I was walking with a group of people the other day, and I spotted a penny on the ground ahead of us. To the dismay of the others I bent down and I picked up the penny and exclaimed with glee, “I found a penny!”. The look on their faces was priceless. Some appeared shocked, some smiled, a few remarked that they’d only pick up a penny if it was heads up and others said they’d never stoop down for a penny – maybe for a dollar bill.

In the middle of the sidewalk irrelivant to who was walking by, I halted our group and stepped in front of them to do my “penny sermon”. I shared my fascination of the penny and the ‘American currency’. I may not be an experienced world traveller but my travels to Europe and the Caribbean has allowed me to handle currency from other countries and there is something special about American currency.

Irrelivant of which religion ‘we’ follow — American currency has something unique: IN GOD WE TRUST

Every time I see a penny on the ground it is a moment of inner reflection for me, a moment where I pray for the last person that held that penny, I pray that they find strength and courage and value in the small things in life. I pray for our nation and I am grateful for the abundance in my life.

I often wonder how many want financial freedom and fail to see the value of the richness in their lives. If you can not master where you are at financially now, and be grateful for your abundance, how could you ever master any more when it comes to you?

A penny by itself may not be much… but a 100,000,000 pennies equal 1 million dollars. One person can make a significant difference but it is a nation that moves a country.

The monotony of life sometimes can numb us to the real value that lies below the surface of our everyday activity. There is value in the uncelebrated moments of our everyday lives.

You do make a difference. You add value to everything you do by who you are, by your commitment, and your spirit.

Daisy Says: Value lives in what we do, in who we are and how we do the things we do in every single moment of the day.

Interesting read today on Yahoo! front page:

Tokyo apartment dwellers are baffled by the 1.8 million yen they found in the mail. Police have no idea who’s behind the cash give away and people were too upright to pocket the money.

Many people get a bit squirmish when it comes to topic about money. It’s even been said that money is rated up there with oxygen, it may not be the want of it but you sure need it to pay for the things you want.

Daisy Says: A person with a dollar and a vision can do more than one with millions and a closed mind.

If money was left anonymously in your mail box, would you:
1. Keep the money and run!
2. Keep some of the money and return the rest.
3. Return every bit of it… if I didn’t earn it don’t want it.
4. What money?