Face Value

The world has an endless variety of coins.  Their function, style, composition of metals, and face value varies from game tokens made of scrap to gold coins and copper pennies (and there are even chocolate coins).  I have battle coins from deployments, award coins for accomplishments, and coins I've been given by those with authority over me during my military career - even one from the Secretary of the Air Force I received in Iraq in 2008. 

Many coins in history have been mistaken for others - the Susan B. Anthony dollar is roughly the same proportions as the standard quarter, its weight and etchings around the edges nearly identical.  These unique dollars have been undervalued by mistake, taken at only 25% of their actual face value.

Other times, coins have been assumed to be something they are not - like the coins I have from other countries being spent and received as dimes by those not paying attention.  Each has its value, ascribed or inherent, but is often passed along unawares.

People can be like these coins too - uniquely crafted in the Mint of Heaven by the very hand of God, yet dropped, lost, and undervalued or seen as not worth much comparatively.  How many pennies have I picked up over the years because others thought them insignificant?  I don't know, of course.  There have been times during a half-hour walk I've picked up more than twenty cents without even trying.  Folks with metal detectors must find so much more - because they're seeking and they're equipped for the task of finding...some are even coin collectors.

Jotting with Johnna
Coining a phrase is a meaning-making creation.  The Creator has coined our souls in ways only He can; and He gives us value when our identity is in Christ.  We've likely all felt undervalued or insignificant - it's part of being human - but God is a collector, and He prizes us.  How might you see yourself differently, behave differently, speak differently if you realized your true value?

Remember:  you are so worthy of acceptance, of being useful, of pursuing the best in yourself so you can reveal our God - whose face value is infinite - to those who behold your life.  Everyone profits when you learn your value and live accordingly.

Stay tuned.  Stay focused.  Stay well.