Why do we even have pennies in the U.S. currency anymore? Are they worthless? What can a penny even buy…Nothing? If you saw a penny on the ground; Would you pick it up? Or would you just walk past it like so many others do? Is it even worth the time to stop, bend over, and pick it up? It’s a penny…who cares!

I am almost positive most people in the United States don’t care about pennies. They are literally everywhere. There are pennies on the ground, the trolly, the beach, on top of mountain hikes, the floors in stores, jugs of them at your home, and in every car door handle. There are even places for you to leave your unwanted pennies at the store counter for someone else to have. I am pretty sure anywhere a human can go there HAS GOT TO BE a penny somewhere in the vicinity. I can’t even imagine how many pennies are dropped, forgotten about, or trashed. I think that people get them and just throw them as hard as they can, in any direction they can. Pennies have got to be worthless for this to happen. I have even heard recently that they are going to stop making pennies.

I know someone that no matter what if they pass a penny, they pick it up. It doesn’t matter how dirty, clean, or corroded it is. This person also finds multiple pennies every time I go walking with them. Every time I just laugh because you can literally make money just walking around. And they get so excited every time they see it on the ground. ” Oh look a penny!” We could be anywhere, and I promise they will find and pick up at least a few pennies. I have even seen them get lucky and find a few quarters, nickels, dimes, and even found a $20 dollar bill one time.

I used to think that you can only pick up a penny if it was on heads because that was “Good Luck”. Or you throw your penny into a fountain to make a wish. Honestly, I think I need to take all the pennies I can find and go to a wishing well and drop buck loads of them in. I only want to make one wish! But it might take a lot more than a worthless penny to come true. It might take a miracle for it to happen.

Anyway, here is a story…A few months ago, I was walking and I came across one of these worthless pennies. This penny was right in the middle of the sidewalk, on tails. No matter what I was going to have to step over, around, or turn completely around and walk the other way not to see this penny. This day was in the middle of when I was at my worst. I felt worthless, trashed, forgotten about, and thrown as far as humanly possible. I felt exactly like this F*@king PENNY! And to be honest at times, I still feel like this F*@king PENNY! As I came up to this dirty penny, I just stood there. I just wanted to walk past it. I just did not care to pick it up. I didn’t want to bend over. I saw that penny and I got mad. I was so mad that I couldn’t even go walking by myself and not see something that reminded me of what I thought was special in my life. Why do I feel like this penny? How can somebody else’s actions make me feel this worthless? How could I allow myself to be treated like this? How can they say they don’t even care? I stood there thinking that there are so many people in this world that are just like all these worthless pennies. Trashed and forgotten about and made to feel like they are absolutely nothing.

As I stood there I realized, WE ARE ALL PENNIES! Some are bright and shiny, some are old and tarnished, some are worth so much more than the actual price of a penny. The more I thought about it, the more comparisons I found. We have an age, we could be living anywhere in the world, we could be lost on a sidewalk, or in a nice air-conditioned mansion surrounded by a ton of our friends. I could go on and on but guess what, at the end of the day, it’s still a penny. At the end of the day, we are and always will be a worthless penny! We are only as important as what someone makes us out to be! We could be someone’s dearest treasure, or we can be their burdening dependent trash. Just depends on who is holding on to you and how they perceive their reality!

I was still standing in front of this penny looking at it and I asked God. “Why do I feel like this? Why do I feel like I am so worthless to the one that I love? Why am I not everything to them? How could they feel this way and why do I even still really care about them?” The very last thing I prayed was, “What can I do to make sure that nobody ever feels like a worthless penny?”

Without even thinking, I bent over and picked up the penny. As I was bent over, an elderly woman walked over to me and asked if I knew where the closest walking bridge was because she was lost. I was caught off guard, confused on what a walking bridge was, or even if I had ever seen one here, and as I turned around to her I just said, “I’m lost also”. She just laughed at me. I don’t know why but even with how mad I was and about to cry, I started laughing too and we just smile at each other. I knew immediately when I looked at her, God was answering my questions and I needed to help this lady out.

The woman then told me that when she was walking, she passed over a bridge and that if she could find that bridge, she would know how to get back to her daughter’s house. I started to look at google maps on my phone and found the bridge that she was talking about. Then I told her that I would walk her to the bridge. As we walked, we talked and laughed. She was the nicest little old lady I have met in a long time. We got to the road leading to the bridge and she looked at me with excitement and said, “Thank God, I know where I am now!” She was so full of joy, she grabbed me in a fully wrapped hug and kissed me on both cheeks. All I could do was just stand there and smile. I was shocked…. this does not happen to me!

As we said our goodbyes, she walked away, and I turned to head back also. I got a few steps and thought to myself, what did I do with that penny I picked up? I don’t remember ever having it in my hand after I picked it up. I thought that I might have put it in my pocket. But when I checked my pockets, it was not there. I started checking everything I had on. I remember picking up the penny, turning, talking to the lady. But what did I do with the penny?

I walked right back to where that penny was, but it wasn’t there either. I search around for it for a little while, but it was nowhere to be found. I have no clue where that penny went. As I was looking for the penny, I had the weirdest feeling. I realized that nicest elderly woman picked up a worthless “Penny” that day. I was lost, trashed, and made to feel worthless to someone else. She just came in and picked me up out of nowhere. That day looking the for penny and even to this day, I honestly think she might have been an Angel sent by God….and better yet… she might have stolen my penny! All I know is that I needed her at that exact moment and God put her right in my path as I was struggling, praying, and falling apart.

#19… Remember at times you might feel like you are worthless, disgusting, and unwanted by somebody, but others might see you as a shiny, brilliant, amazing treasure. So, when you are thrown away, someone might surprise you and pick you back up. Also, NEVER EVER just walk past a “Penny”, always take your time to pick someone up if they are down, and always remember…. Angels might take pennies!

So, if pennies and people are valuable to Angels, then pennies and people better be valuable to you!!!!

God! Thank you for everything that you are doing in my life. Thank you for being with me in my hardest times and my best times. I might not understand what I am going though, why I’m not “the” person, and how to even move forward with life but I know that you got me. I know I asked you to take my life, but I was never expecting for all of this. As I start to struggle, fall apart, gasp for air and reality. I feel that you come to lift me up and you send your strongest people here on earth to contact and help me when I am weak. I will not complain as I am ready for this ride. I want to be able to do for others what has been done for me. Please, I just pray that someone special to me is feeling the same power from you! I pray and trust that you are guiding them also and I see that they are following the signs that you are putting in front of them during this hard time and that is why I am prepared… I will just walk away, hang up my hat on an awesome adventure, give up, and let go! Please help me to get to where I don’t care either. AMEN!

God Bless,

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