Hello there! I created
grandmas house so I could be a
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loving Christian
grandma to every child I meet.
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You're going to meet some
real kids who come every week
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for love and
Christian mentoring.
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Many of them are hearing
about Jesus for the first time.
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My hope and prayer is that
you will be inspired to open
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your arms and heart to
your neighborhood children.
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Welcome to grandmas house!
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Hi everybody come on in here.
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We are getting ready to
play a game of hide and seek.
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I am so glad to
have you join us today.
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I've had a lot of my own
grandkids here in town and
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we're so excited
when we can get together.
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We are going to play a
game now and we want you to
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join us as we hunt.
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How many hunters and
how many hiders do I have?
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I'm a hunter okay,
hunters come right here.
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We are going to count to
100 and you guys, if you are
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Hunter - somebody
counts and some people hide.
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When the person is
finish counting they get
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to find the persons.
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Go, OK were going
to count to 100 guys.
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Ready cover up - I was in
it, I have to catch every one.
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17, 18, 19.
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That was so cool!
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98, 99, 100 -
alright here we come!
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The girls were easy to
catch, but the boys were hard.
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The boys are so easy to
outrun, even that they are
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older than me and
they have longer legs.
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I like playing
hide and seek because
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I can out run an adult.
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It was really fun, I was
the one that found all the
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people and it was really
hard, but I only found 2.
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There was doll-houses
and tree-houses and tents and
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bushes and Hammocks and
bugs and lizards and things.
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I was running around
in the yard and when I was
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heading to a place I
turned around and he got me when
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I was heading over there.
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And that was the deal I will
never forget, what can you want?
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Oh you guys tired? Yeah!
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Well I want to ask
you guys to question.
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What is the best place
you ever found to hide?
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You don't know,
how about you guys?
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Did you ever find
a place to hide where
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nobody ever found you?
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I know I know - where?
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Over across the creek,
well where I hid one time it
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was not across the creek.
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But you know I can tell
the story much better if we
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take a visit down at the barn.
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Okay, you guys want
to go down to the barn?
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
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Let's go, the barn is this way.
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You see the tree-house - No!
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In the barn, come on!
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Oh this is a great old barn.
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I love being out here,
we have had a lot of fun,
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haven't we guys? - yeah!
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Well on our way to the
very back of the barn here,
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I'm going to tell you a story.
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We have run into a lot of
interesting things but this
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is probably the most
interesting thing in the barn.
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Are you ready to
see what it is? - yeah!
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Alright, David you can
help me to pull us off.
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Now what do you
think this object is?
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Did it get stuck down there!
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Oooh a Dresser?
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Come around the
front, if you can,
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and let's take a look at it.
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Let's guess, here I'll
help you, look at all the doors.
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It's a dresser,
it's a dresser, huh!
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Any other guess, a cabinet?
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Well what - and icebox!
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It is an icebox, these are
the old-fashioned refrigerators.
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This is the one I
wanted to you a story about.
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I was probably 3 years
old and we had one of these.
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The house we lived in
didn't have any electricity so
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this is how we
kept our food cold.
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And ours the top would
lift up and you would put
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a big chunk of ice in there.
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And that was how it
would keep your food cold.
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Well one day we
finally got electricity,
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and that was a
big day in our house.
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My dad took the old
icebox out and he put it out by
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the garage and he was
getting ready to take it,
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and get rid of it.
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Of course he
told me, very clearly,
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stay away from the icebox.
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But of course,
did I stay away? - No!
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What happened was that all
my cousins came over and we
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started playing a game of
hide and seek just like today.
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And I wanted to find a
place to hide where no one would
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find me, so where
do you think I hid?
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In the icebox - in the icebox!
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Oh and that is a
terrible thing to do, terrible.
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So I crawled in there,
as little as I, I crawled
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in the door like this.
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I pulled the door
shut, and I was in there.
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I was so proud of
myself, I would say nobody's
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going to find me now.
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You know it was
great for a little while,
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but after I was in there
a little while it started
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to get hot and stuffy.
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I couldn't breathe very
well, and I could hear the
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kids going around and
around outside saying, Joyce,
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Joyce, where are you?
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They couldn't find me,
couldn't find me and pretty soon
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someone was saying
Ollie Ollie Oxidant free.
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But I couldn't get
out, I couldn't go in free.
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So I tried to push on
the door because there's no
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latches inside so I
couldn't get out I was stuck.
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It was getting
hotter and hotter in there.
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I was starting to get scared.
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Well outside the kids
were looking for me and
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pretty soon they got tired.
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So they went in the house
and played some other games.
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But after a while,
mother said, do you know
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are all the children in?
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You know I didn't
think to count, let's check
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and see if they are all in.
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So they all started looking
for me, the grown-ups did.
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They started
calling and calling.
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You know I do not remember
and other thing until all
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of a sudden my dad was
there and he opened the door.
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I had leaned up
against the door and
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I fell out right on the ground.
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If he hadn't come out and
found me just when he did,
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I might have died.
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So you have to be
careful where you hide.
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Sometimes it is good
to hide in good places and
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other times it's good to
hide in a someplace where
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somebody can find you.
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In case of emergency right?
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So what do you
think of the old icebox?
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Is it pretty, would
you like to have one
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in your house, or what?
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Grandma took us out
to the barn and showed
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us an old refrigerator.
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You have to put a big
block of ice in it and
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a pan to keep yourself cold.
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There is no place
that you can hide from God,
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He knows where you are.
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He knew that she was
going to die in the icebox,
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so He told her dad
that she was hiding in there
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and he got there
right at the last minute.
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The reason you should never
get inside of a refrigerator,
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new or old.
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The new one is because
you would get very, very cold,
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but no one would ever find you.
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In the old is
because you could die.
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Why don't you guys get
out your pencil and paper's
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and get ready to
get down my address.
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You know how I
love to hear from you.
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So here it is!
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Hey kids grandma Neil
would love to hear from you.
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She loves to get pictures,
drawings and anything else
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you would like to send her.
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She also answers each one
of your letters so get your
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pen ready and
write down her address.
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I think we should write
to grandma Neil, like all the
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kids all over the
world write to grandma Neil.
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Or we can also
communicate to her on computers,
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we can e-mail
her and everything.
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It is actually pretty
fun to be with grandma Neil.
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I am so glad that you
come to have fun with us today.
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The more kids there
are the more fun it is.
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And yet when
it's only you and me,
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I love this time the best.
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Today I want you to get
to know me a little better.
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I want to take you
about something I like a lot.
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Could you guess? Probably not!
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So I will just
tell you, it's poetry.
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I especially like poems written
by my kids, my grandkids.
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Maybe you'll
write me a poem someday.
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And I like poems about kids.
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One of my favorites is
called, Are All The Children In.
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It tells about an old
house where a lots of children
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lived and
played outside all day.
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When it got dark the
mother would call them in and
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then she would look
around the room and say,
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are all the children in.
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Then the poet wonders,
when Jesus comes and calls
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His children to come home,
will He look all around and ask,
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are all the children in?
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You know when I got
stuck inside the old icebox
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I was so glad that
somebody thought to ask if
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all of us kids were in.
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It was wonderful having
somebody watching over us.
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There's somebody else
who watches over us with the
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greatest of care, it's Jesus.
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I've told you before
that He has gone to build a
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beautiful city
for us to live in.
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I think He is busy there
right now building lovely
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houses and parks and
gardens and pets for everyone.
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It's almost finished now
but nobody lives there yet.
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Can you imagine how quiet
the streets must be, but it
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won't be quiet
there for much longer.
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Jesus has promised to
come back and find everyone
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of His children and
take them to live with Him.
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After all the families
and friends have gone in,
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I wonder what Jesus
look around and ask,
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are all the children in?
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What do you think?
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I think He will.
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Do you know that it
costs Jesus everything
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He had just so
you could be there?
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Jesus paid way more
than just money for you,
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He died for you, that
was everything He had.
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That is how valuable
you are to Him, so am I and
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is every other
person in this world.
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He loves us all so much and
some day very soon, when it's
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time for all his children
to move in the new city.
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I know He will be sure to
ask are all the children in?
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He will be so glad to
see us and we will be happier
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than we've ever
been before to see Him.
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I promise I will be
there, would you promise me
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to be there too?
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Until the next time
remember that I pray for you
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every night,
and that I love you.
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