SOPHIA'S CHOICE*
>> Friday, October 7, 2011
Sophia, eleven years old, is trying
out for the school volleyball team. Her friend is a more aggressive, solid player.
Sophia says she's "wobbly." Sometimes when the ball comes to her she doesn't know what to do. She wants to
play well and not embarrass herself.
I've forgotten what 11 years old
feels like, but I want to play well and not embarrass myself. I can relate to
that.
Sophia's Aunt MaryAnn understood too.
"Sophia, each of us has special qualities that God was excited about when
he made us. Still, we often spend our lives trying to be like someone else
rather than exploring the cool things that make us us!"
"You know," said
Sophia, "I like to think about things in little pictures or stories so I
can understand them. I feel like we are kind of like these cookies - maybe
sugar cookies or something...and we all have neat little things on our backs,
like maybe chocolate chips or something. We can only see the cool things on the
other cookies backs because, you know, you can't see what's on your own back.
You just think you're this plain cookie when you really have cool stuff on your
back too that the other cookies can see but you can't sometimes!"
"You're so right!"
laughed MaryAnn, "You were seeing the 'little-bit-burnt' side of yourself!"
How are you seeing yourself
today?
What values are you living out?
Unless you become as little children you cannot enter the kingdom of God
* Sophia's story used by permission
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