The Holy Star
(A Children's Story)

“Wicapiwakan, shine for the Holy One! Wicapiwakan, shine for the Holy One! Wicapiwakan, shine—”

“Hope, wake up!” Spark, a big and bulky star, interrupted my dream. “Hope!” He called once again.

“Wake up! Hope! Wake up!” Twink’s alarming voice awakened me. Her tall and skinny figure towered over me.

“I’m awake! I’m awake!”  I looked around with blinking eyes. 

“Hurry! We don’t have much time.”  Spark could not hide his excitement. “Let’s go!”

“Wait, where are we going?” I asked as I followed. My friends were quickly weaving their way through the big and bright stars of the galaxy. They were also too fast for a little one like me.

“Excuse me! Excuse me!” I said over and over, going as fast as I could between crowds of starry hosts. I was trying to catch up with my friends and I did not notice where I was going.

“Ahhh! I’m drifting!” I shouted. I felt so scared I cried out, “God, please help me. I don’t want to fall.” When I realized that I was no longer drifting, I quickly turned to my right and to my left. “Spark? Twink? Where are you guys?”  

I found myself alone in the dark, and I became very afraid. “Where am I?” I asked as I turned around. “Whoa!” My eyes suddenly grew round. Billions and billions of stars from the galaxies were all shining and sparkling right before me. “I wish I was one of them,” I whispered to myself.

“You are, Wicapiwakan,” said the Mighty voice.

“Wicapiwakan? Me? No, my name is Hope,” I replied in fear while I searched for the familiar sound.

“I know who you are. I see you.” The Mighty voice revealed.

“You see me? You could see my itty-bitty light?” I could not believe it.

The Mighty voice answered, “You may be a wee one, but I always see you.”

“I still don’t understand how you could see me. I’m so small and so tiny, and I don’t even know my place in the galaxy.” I said to myself but somehow the Mighty voice heard me.

  “Don’t be sad. I have made you as you are because you’re special to Me. And because I made you, I know the perfect place for you,” declared the Mighty voice. 

“Really?” I could not hide my excitement.

Then the Mighty voice asked me, “Will you go for Me?”

I nodded joyfully. “I will! I will!” I cried out jumping up and down. Suddenly a great light appeared and swirled around me and brought me far to the East. There the great light came upon me and led me to my place. Then I heard the Mighty voice, “Wicapiwakan, the holy star, you have become! For you will shine bright as the guiding light now that the long-awaited King is come.”

I was just a little one from far, far away in the galaxy. I did not know that my Maker had a big plan designed just for me. Why He chose me, I will never understand. But because He chose me, I will obey His plan: “Wicapiwakan, shine for the Holy One!”