ArtsAutosBooksBusinessEducationEntertainmentFamilyFashionFoodGamesGenderHealthHolidaysHomeHubPagesPersonal FinancePetsPoliticsReligionSportsTechnologyTravel

The Story of the Precious Doll

Updated on June 12, 2012
Made in the Image and Likeness of God!!!
Made in the Image and Likeness of God!!!

The Story of the Precious Doll

Once upon a time there was an old man who had only one grandchild, named Liliyanna. She was a beautiful girl who loved God and sought to love Him more and more each day.

One day the Grandpa decided for Lilyanna's 15th birthday he would make her a precious doll, one that you could never buy at the store. This doll would be made out of the finest and rarest materials. A doll made out of Love.

First, the grandpa traveled to Jerusalem to cut wood from a tree in the Garden of Olives. Next, he traveled to India to find cloth of the finest silk, and weaved them into a most beautiful dress. Then, he went to Russia to find the wild white ponies that had manes of golden hair, so soft and strong. He found the white ponies with golden hair and chopped some off for the doll. For the mouth he bought ruby red paint, the same one Michaelangelo himself used!

He then traveled to England to find the perfect pair of glass blue eyes. Then, he went to a flower shop in Italy to buy flowers to make beautiful hair pieces. Next, he bought some earrings and jewels made of diamonds from the Austrailian diamond mountains.

Finally, the last thing to do was the most important. He had heard that deep in the forest of the Amazon there is a rare red ruby shapped like a heart. So he traveled there and for three long weeks searched for this heart-shapped ruby and finally found it! He placed it into the carved hole in the chest.

The doll was finally ready and just in time, for it was the eve of her birthday. He wraped it and placed it in a pretty pink box with a bow and placed it at the end of her bed. Grandpa woke up the next morning and sat on a chair with some coffee waiting for Lilyanna to come downstairs. A few moments later she came down with the doll in hand and walked staight up to grandpa and gave him a quick hug and thank you, and headed off into the kitchen.

There her mother was baking the cake. As Lilyanna walked into the kitchen she threw the doll on the floor next to the dog. Her mother quickly turnned to her and told her to pick up the doll saying, "Take care of that doll darling, your grandpa took many months to make it." Lilyanna blushed and picked up the doll and huffed out of the kitchen to her brother's room. There she was going to tell her brother what she thought about the doll.

"Look at this doll" she told her brother as she ripped of the bows, "Just look". And she ripped off the beautiful dress and threw it on the floor. "What are you doing?", her brother asked, "Why are you doing that to the doll?" "Don't you know what grandpa went through to make that doll for you? "I have my reasons and besides this isn't hurting grandpa anyhow, the damage I am doing is just to the doll not to him." "See, look!" as she plucked out the ruby red heart of the doll and threw it into the fish tank, "That didn't hurt anyone."

What she did not know was that her grandpa had been watching the whole time. He had tears in his eyes, his heart was broken, not because of the rejection of the doll, nor because of the damage done to the doll, but of the rejection of Love. He had made it with love and had given it with love, and she rejected that love.

So now think of how we are the precious dolls of God, made from His own materials, His Image and Likeness. We reject His love just as Lilyanna did when we mistreat each other and disobey His loving commands. And just like it did matter when Lilyanna did the damage to the doll thinking it had no affect on her grandpa, so too when we for instance, disobey our parents (The fourth commandment) it affects God and Him most of all. Just as the damage done to the doll had the worst affect on the maker (Her grandpa) more than the doll itself. Therefore it does matter what we do and how we act.

By two sisters, Anastasia and Alexandra Clark

Is it important that we are made in the Image of God?

See results
working

This website uses cookies

As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.

For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy

Show Details
Necessary
HubPages Device IDThis is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons.
LoginThis is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service.
Google RecaptchaThis is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy)
AkismetThis is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy)
HubPages Google AnalyticsThis is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy)
HubPages Traffic PixelThis is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized.
Amazon Web ServicesThis is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy)
CloudflareThis is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy)
Google Hosted LibrariesJavascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy)
Features
Google Custom SearchThis is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy)
Google MapsSome articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
Google ChartsThis is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy)
Google AdSense Host APIThis service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
Google YouTubeSome articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
VimeoSome articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
PaypalThis is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
Facebook LoginYou can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
MavenThis supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy)
Marketing
Google AdSenseThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Google DoubleClickGoogle provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Index ExchangeThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
SovrnThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Facebook AdsThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Amazon Unified Ad MarketplaceThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
AppNexusThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
OpenxThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Rubicon ProjectThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
TripleLiftThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Say MediaWe partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy)
Remarketing PixelsWe may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites.
Conversion Tracking PixelsWe may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service.
Statistics
Author Google AnalyticsThis is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy)
ComscoreComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy)
Amazon Tracking PixelSome articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy)
ClickscoThis is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy)