Wee Wisdom
We hope you and your children will fall in love with the gang from Wee Wisdom Village. Join Spunky the Skunk, Willow the Owl, Allie the Cat and Ratta Tat the rappin’ Rat on their weekly escapades. Learn about living a Spirit-filled life every animated step of the way.

Finding the Gift

Spunky the Skunk had been feeling a little low because his parents had told him they weren’t going to be able to go on a summer vacation this year. But thanks to Willow the Owl and a few hours of volunteering at the soup kitchen, he’d had a change of attitude. At the soup kitchen, he’d helped serve lunch to a lot of people who needed a free meal, especially some homeless moms and dads and even some homeless kids. The soup kitchen had helped Spunky go from sad to glad, though his good mood wasn’t going to last long.

As Spunky walked into his house, he saw his dad sitting at the kitchen table. Dad was never home at this time of the day, and I wonder why he looks so down, Spunky wondered. His dad looked up from the newspaper and said, “Well there you are, Spunky. Come sit down, I have something important to tell you.”

Spunky pulled out a chair and sat down at the table while his dad went on, “Spunky, I lost my job today.”

“Where did it go?” Spunky asked. He was always losing things, like his homework, but he couldn’t quite see how you could lose anything as important as a job.

“I didn’t lose it like that,” his dad smiled. “I was fired, Spunky. Remember when I told you we were going to have to ‘tighten our belts’ around here? Well, now it’s even more important to save money since I don’t have a job.”

Spunky’s eyes welled up with tears. He suddenly imagined himself standing in line at the soup kitchen, instead of helping to serve the soup. But as he saw his dad looking worried, he choked back his tears and tried to smile. “Don’t worry dad, I like soup and I know just where we can get some.”

For the first time that day, Spunky’s dad smiled. “I don’t think we’ll be headed there quite yet. Your mom and I have been saving up some money in case this happened.”

“Well, I can still help!” Spunky volunteered. “You know, I make money from Spring to Fall mowing lawns in the neighborhood. This year maybe I can find even more customers than last, and then I’ll save what I earn! And my allowance, well, I could do without that, though it won’t be fun.”

“That’s the spirit!” Spunky’s dad said. “We’ll all try to save. And let’s look on the positive side of this. I believe losing my job was a blessing. I never liked it much anyway, but I was too afraid to quit. Now I have the opportunity to go and do something I will really like. Remember Spunky, you can look at anything in your life as a problem or as a gift. Let’s choose to see this as a gift.”

Question for Kids: Can you think of ways you could save money? Are there things you could do without? What things have happened to you that could be seen as a problem or a gift?