We often focus on the “good works” we believe that we ought to be doing, and miss the import and power of being “His workmanship.” “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” You are uniquely made and loved by your Creator, God Almighty.Īn often overlooked word that speaks to our specialness is “workmanship” found in Ephesians 2:10. The point of Lucado’s story is powerful, profound, and obvious. Furthermore, he’s surprised to learn that Eli loves him just the way he made him. So Lucia takes him to visit Eli, the maker of all Wemmicks.Įli explains to Punchinello that stickers will not adhere to him if he doesn’t care what other Wemmicks think. Punchinello doesn’t want any stickers on him either. Why? She explains the stickers will not stick to her. Then one day Punchinello meets another Wemmick, Lucia, who doesn’t have any stickers. Sadly Punchinello thinks he isn’t very important or worth very much. Punchinello tries hard to receive gold stars from his fellow Wemmicks, but all he ever gets is gray dots.

The Wemmicks give each other gold stars for their achievements or a gray dot sticker for doing not well enough.

“You are Special” is the title of a children’s book by Max Lucado, in which he tells about a unique community of painted wooden people called Wemmicks.

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