There was once a girl named Cammy. Cammy didn’t like the way she looked or even the way she acted, she had always felt that everyone else was better than her. She hated to see her reflection, and she could not look at anyone without wishing she could have something that they had.
One day as Cammy was wandering through the forest wishing she could be as pretty as the flowers she passed, she happened upon a small fairy like person.
“Wow!” said Cammy, “ you have a much better nose than I do!” Then she realized that if this person was a fairy than she had to grant her whatever she wished! “Hey!” said Cammy, “you have to grant me a wish since I have found you, don’t you?” The little person sighed “Yes, I do, but be wise, I’ve had to grant some horrible wishes in my life.”
Cammy thought long and hard and finally said “I wish I could have a special power to be able to change myself at will to whatever I’d like.”
“No!” Cried the fairy in dismay, “Please choose something else! Others have asked me for this and there is a catch to it. You can only change into something you have seen, and you have to understand that you can never be the way you are now again. Those who have wished this have become very confused and lost and they never found themselves again. They are often driven to insanity! Choose something different, wouldn’t you like to have all the money you’ll ever need?”
“No, you can’t dissuade me. I hate the way I am and I would be fortunate to never be this way again. Give me this wish fairy!” Cammy demanded.
Reluctantly the fairy touched Cammy’s head with fingers that Cammy noticed were much prettier than her own and then vanished into thin air.
Cammy immediately ran to the nearest village. “I’d like her smile, her nose, her hair, I need that dress, and her waist, I like her left arm and I like her right arm!” And on it went until Cammy came to a mirror and there she was surprised that nothing seemed to fit together. So she set about getting different things but once again they just did not fit together. Then she started taking others voices, and attitudes, even their individual mannerisms.
When Cammy got tired of her town she went to the next until soon she had covered the entire country. It seemed that nothing made her happy and she could not find contentment with anything she got. Cammy began to notice the beauty of nature and take that since she could find no satisfaction in taking on the beauty of people.
One day Cammy walked into a village with a bobcats ears, a does eyes, a mane like a lion, and a tail like a snake, her hair was leaves and her skin was birch bark. Not only that but Cammy spoke like a bird. “Oh my!” Exclaimed the people of the town upon seeing her and they chased her out thinking her to be a monster of some sort.
Cammy became troubled. She had forgotten everything that she had once been, she did not even know her own name. As she wandered the world she was given a new name. The Chameleon was what townspeople called her. On account of being chased away from people Cammy could not turn herself into one of them again.
She was sick of living so she began to climb a mountain thinking that when she got to the top she would simply jump and so end her miserable existence. As she was climbing she happened upon the same fairy she’d met on that fateful day so long ago. “I want her face!” She thought to herself and it was hers. “Cammy!” Cried the fairy, recognizing her. “Who are you talking to?” Cammy tried to ask but only the sound of a waterfall came out of her mouth. “Oh, I hope you can understand me Cammy, go to the top! Please just reach the top of this mountain!” Said the fairy urgently. “I want her language.” Cammy thought and then she could speak. “Why should I go to the top? Who are you?” she asked the fairy. “I am Mercy and at the top of this mountain is the Creator of all things, He can make you into something new!” Cammy was interested, “New…” she had already used and seen everything on the earth, could there be anything new?
Cammy reached the top rather quickly though it was a long way, she was just eager to be new. At the top she found no one, only a view. “I came all this way for nothing!?” She shouted “Creator, what were you thinking when you created me?!” A voice that surrounded her and shook the mountain answered back “I thought I had created something perfect, my child.” Cammy was afraid now but called out “Do I look perfect to you?” Suddenly she was transformed into the Cammy she had once been, a mirror appeared before her and as she saw herself she began to weep. The voice whispered, “Yes, you look perfect!” “Will I change again?” Sobbed Cammy, “Can I stay this way?” “Only if you stay with me.” Came the answer. “Who are you?” “I am your Creator.” “Who am I?” “You are Mine.”
From then on Cammy was a different person. She knew the Creator, and they would spend their whole days together. Cammy never wanted to be anyone else ever again because she saw how special her Maker had made her and how He loved her just the way she was.
He would constantly remind her that she was His masterpiece and tell her that He was so proud of her. Cammy even got to tell her story to others so that no one else would have to go through the things that she went through; but that they would be so thankful for the way they were created.
Psalm 139:14
I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works and my soul knows it very well.
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