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Car Talks : Who Determines ‘Who We Are’

9 April 2015No Comment

As children grow up, there will always be pressures from their peers.

What if I don’t do what my friends do?

What if my friends ask me to do something that they all do but I actually disagree with?

What ifs. What ifs.

As always, we have a good talk about lots of stuff when we are on the road.

And we talked about this.

These are some of the thoughts shared :

‘Who we are’ is not determined by what our friends, our peers, say about us.

When it comes to ‘who we are as a person’, we should never use other people’s standardsSay, … if you got 50 in your test, and everyone else at school said that you are SO smart for getting 50 (because they all got no more than 25 marks), it does not mean we truly are ‘smart’.

Our peers can say whatever they wish to say, but when it comes to ‘who we are as a person’, we should never use other people’s standards.

Remember this, always :

We only follow and hear what our Creator says about us.

We then talked about Punchinello.

To those who are not yet familiar with the story, here’s a bit about it (well recommended storybook, btw!):

In the story of Punchinello in ‘Best of all’ by Max Lucado, the people in his village said that he was ‘second class’ because he was made out of willow wood. And for some time, Punchinello did believe that he was of ‘lower quality’ than those who were made of maple wood.

Well, until Punchinello met the Wood Carver who MADE him! The Wood Carver made Punchinello special, purposely using willow wood when he first created him.

What the Wood Carver said matters the most. Because the Wood Carver was the Maker, and he truly knew what he was doing and why he made Punchinello in the first place!

Punchinello’s worth and value is determined by the Maker, not by his fellow villagers who were also ‘made by the Maker’.

And it exactly is the same for us.

 

It was a good and honest talk.

And I’m really glad we always have opportunities to talk about stuff openly.

May God always watch over each of them, whenever and wherever, so that they can walk in His truth, with the wisdom from above when choosing to do what’s right, even though everyone else may seem to be going the opposite direction.

May God have mercy on our little family.

Amen.

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