Different Kinds of Currency

This picture was posted because someone

wanted to know if a store or bank would take this damaged $20.00 bill.

The short answer is yes, as long as you have 50% of the bill and one complete serial number showing. It is still valuable as currency.

The long answer is that retailers and cashiers are not legally obligated to take torn or damaged money. Some stores might if it has been taped or is in not too bad of shape. The option for redeeming damaged dollars is at the bank. As long as you have that 50% and one serial number most banks will exchange it for a new bill.

For money that is severely damaged, burned or mutilated you would need to download and submit a claim form and mail it and the bill to the Bank of Canada yourself.

Interesting to consider that the bank note does not loose its value when it is damaged and even if severely damaged it is still referred to as currency or money. It holds it “name” and rank in society.

What would you value your life at? For instance, are you a $1,000 bill? A 100? A $50… or do you think you hardly have any value at all?

There is a devious and insidious lie in our society that says “we are not good enough.” Most of us live by it, believe it, share it and make it our central theme. “I am just not good enough.”

The I am not good enough line also can morph into:

I am not smart enough

I am not pretty enough

I am not talented enough

I am not loved enough

I am not spiritual enough

I am not skilled enough

I am not brave enough

I am not tall enough

I am not thin enough

I am well… I think you get the idea.

My question to you is, “who said?”

The answer to this life altering question is where and who you get your self worth from. You live you life, get your self worth based on this question.

Well my mom and/or dad told me.

My siblings told me.

My friends told me.

My teacher told me.

My boss told me….

Who gave these people the right to label you as worthless currency, damaged or defective? Even a torn, ripped, broken $20 bill has value. Are you worth less?

There is no such thing as a perfect person, there are only flawed ones. We all have had some rips, some tears, some damage to our lives because just like money, we get handled along the way.

These damages in no way diminish your value as a created human being. It does not change who you are.

God tells us in The Bible that He created you, me, everyone. He was there from the moment of conception watching, molding, forming you to be the very person He wanted you to be. Psalm 139 mentions this, that He was there at our creation. He said, “you were very good” in the book of Genesis.

You were created by a Creator who assigned your value before you were even born! God is not so concerned with your doing’s, your behaviour’s, He is vitally concerned about who you are. Your “being.”

Oswald Chambers says it like this: “we consider what we do in the way of Christian work as service yet Jesus Christ calls service to be what we are to Him, not what we do for Him.”

June 19, My Utmost For His Highest.

Just like holding a $20 bill, $50, or a $100 bill - they have a place and plan in our society. So do you.

Your value is totally dependent upon the One who made you. He gave you life and meaning.

The world has been trying to make you not believe that because it measures value differently.

Let’s pretend you are holding a $20 bill from Canada, USA, Mongolia, which bill is worth more? None of them, they have $20 value in each country of origin. You cannot change that. They all have intrinsic value because of the purpose they were created for.

So do you…