I have never been crazy about circuses. Mainly because I felt the animals were not fairly treated, but the thought of a freak show just seemed so very wrong. No, I am not old enough to have experienced The Great Depression and attended a circus which included a demoralizing freak show. However, the very short film entitled “The Butterfly Circus” challenges each of us to rethink our value and become all God intended us to be.
Nick Vujicic was born limbless (tetra-amelia syndrome) and has learned to go beyond the stigma of the world viewing him as a freak show in and of himself. Nick Vujicic is a inspiration to us all because he has learned he is not a victim, but has a greater purpose uniquely his own. God blessed him to be born not as a deformity, but as a testament, a man who is not defined by his physical lackings, but by his joy knowing he is a first class son of our first class King.
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them” Psalm 139:13-16 (ESV).
“The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph” (Mr. Mendez, Butterfly Circus master).
“When you don’t get a miracle, be one!” Nick Vujicic.
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