When Gepetto made Pinocchio he wasn’t making a puppet; he was making a son. So when he becomes human he isn’t becoming something that he is not. He is becoming something that he was always intended to be.
I think that sometimes when people look at believers they see a Pinocchio, a puppet. What they fail to see, and what we often forget to see, is that a puppet may be what we are for the time being, but it isn’t who we are. We, like Pinocchio, are children masterfully crafted by a loving creator. Sons…and daughters.
