my wemmicks

This is the sight I woke up to on 4th of July.

Finny and Gege reminded me of little wemmicks.

Wemmicks are wooden people that walk around giving stars to people they admire.

And they give dots to people they are not so impressed with.

There was a wemmick named Punchinello that was not very talented. He tripped and fell a lot and would say very silly things. So he got lots of dots.

This made him very sad.

Then he met a girl named Lucia, who had NO dots. And NO stars.

Punchinello wanted to be just like her. So he asked what her secret was.

She led him to a carpenter named Eli, who was the creator of all the wemmicks.

Eli told Punchinello that he was very special...made exactly how he was intended to be. No mistakes. The dots only mattered to the other wemmicks. Not to Eli.

Punchinello slowly began to understand Lucia's secret. Lucia spent a lot of time with her creator Eli, and grew to learn that it was more important to believe what Eli thought of her than what others thought of her.

And so their opinions did not matter so much to her...they did not stick to her...and so her dots and stars fell off.

And as soon as Punchinello started to believe Eli, that he really WAS special, a dot fell off of him.

Dots or stars...matching outfits or clashing get-ups...I think my little wemmicks are very special too.

Narration adapted from my favorite Max Lucado story, "You Are Special".