Max Lucado wrote one of my daughter, Shayla's, favorite books, You Are Special. It's a book about these wooden folks who put dots on people in town who are "special" or gifted. If you are good, the dots people give to you stick; but if you don't think you are good, or if you make a mistake, the dots fall off and people make fun of you for not having enough dots! One girl in the book has no dots and is totally cool with that. She is sassy and confident and totally gets who she is. She meets this little guy who has no dots and who thinks he is a failure. This girl takes the boy to meet Eli, the wood carver, who creates all these people. Upon meeting Eli, his creator, this little guy begins to start understanding that he is special b/c Eli made only one of him! You probably get the moral of the story (and if not, don't worry, we read the book during STW and show you how to do a great devo:) In the end, this little guy begins to listen more to what his creator says to him about how special he is than the people around him.
Another fav book of mine is called, You Are Born an Original, Don't Die a Copy. Moral of the book is that You are the FIRST that ever was. You are "fearfully and wonderfully made: (Ps 139:14). Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently and as effectively as you can. When you fully use the gifts you have, people call you gifted. You are not created to be all things to all people. Did you know that more than 90 percent of all flowers have either an unpleasant odor or none at all. Yet it is the ones with sweet frangrance that we most remember. My encouragement to you is embrace how God designed you and Stand out! "Don't copy the behaviors of this world, but be a new and different person with fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how His ways will really satisfy you." (Romans 12:2)
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