Dots and Stars...Be a Lucia

http://youtu.be/15QuHygLwFU

This story, is one of my very favorites.....of all time. It’s all about the Wemmicks, little wooden people made by a wonderful carpenter named Eli. They live in a little village where all they do all day is walk around with their little boxes of golden stars and gray dots and place them on each other. If you are beautiful, talented, well dressed, and can sing pretty you get lots of stars, but if your wood is chipped, your paint is peeling, you have no talents and say silly things.... you get dots …

There is one little wooden guy named Punchinello who only gets dots, and he is so sad because he tries so hard to get stars but he only ends up just making things worse. He doesn’t even want to go out anymore because he is so covered in dots it’s embarassing ….. and the only people he is comfortable with are the other wemmicks that have lots of dots. Then he meets Lucia, and she doesn’t have any stars or dots because they won’t stick to her……he has to know how she does this………and he eventually finds out it is because she does not care what the other Wemmicks say....only what Eli, her maker, says.....and because of this, the stars and dots do not stick to her.

I love everything about this story, and find it so pertinent in our culture today. I think we could translate our Facebook "likes", Instagram "hearts", Twitter "retweets", and blog "followers" into the Wemmicks dots and stars. We need to remind ourselves, and our precious children growing up in this Wemmick society, that IT DOES NOT MATTER! None of it.....period.If you have not heard of this book, or haven’t read it…….go out now and buy it…….“you are special” by max lucado ……and read it over and over…..

 Choose to not let the dots stick or the stars matter…..

xo,

Barb