Max Lucado had done it again with "Skeeter and the mystery of the Lost Mosquito Treasure" from the Hermie and Friends DVD series. If you are not familiar with the Hermie & Friends Series you've been missing out. The animated cartoon series is based on biblical principals and told in a way that is both entertaining and easily understood by young children. This story is based on the teachings of Psalm 139:13-14.For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well. (Psalms 139:13-14; NIV)
Skeeter (a mosquito) feels that his famous brother, Sir Sinclair M. Skeeto, can do no wrong with his perfect stinger and sense of direction to match while poor Skeeter has a zig zag nose that he cannot straighten no matter what he does and to make matters worse he is always getting lost. When Skeeter's brother brings a mysterious treasure map left by their father to the garden he is understandably less than thrilled as he sadly watches all of his friends fawn over his perfect brother.
Yet things turn around for Skeeter as he joins his brother on the hunt for the secret treasure and discovers his own gift as well as his brother's less-than-perfect secret.
The important message of this story stayed with my children long after we replaced the DVD into its case. Siblings who struggled with their own feelings of not being as good as their own perfect sibling, sat a little straighter and started seeing themselves as God intended: perfectly and wonderfully made.
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