Welcome to grandma's house!
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The time we spent together
is one grandma's attempt
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to love and bless in Jesus name.
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The kids to see are not
real actors, just real kids
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in a real neighborhood
like any other they are
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the joy of my life.
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Especially when I see the little
seeds I plant begin to sprout.
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If you have an empty
place in your heart please stay.
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Spent a little
time at grandma's house.
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What you got - it's like
agate, it's one that's been in
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a creek for while
because it smooth.
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I've got some in here
that are pretty rough.
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That's - oh wow look
at, the kids are here - Hi!
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Hi! so glad you
guys decided to join us.
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Michael and I are here
going over some treasures.
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We invite you to come and
look at some of our treasures.
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What have we got down
here Michael, show them one.
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This one! that one! Why
do you like that one best?
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It's kind of rugged and on
the sides it's like all smooth.
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I like that one too!
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But this one is my
favorite, look at it.
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It's got, sort of looks
like a tooth and it's got all
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those layers in there.
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That's cool -
going around and around.
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Look at that, anyway
that's one of my favorites,
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I love the odd shape.
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There is all
kinds in here and I got
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them from all different places.
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Cool! - Yeah! - Do you
collect treasures yourself?
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Yeah! I collect
coins and all that stuff.
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Do you, yeah!
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Well, were do you
keep your treasures?
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Ah, at home safe.
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Safely at home!
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Well do you know what I
have always wondered about?
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I wondered about
things like, what do boys
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keep in their pockets?
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Do you have anything in
your pockets right now - yeah!
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Are you willing
to show me - okay!
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Alright let me see what it is.
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It's a broken bottle
- broken glass - yeah!
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It's beautiful - I was
walking down the street and
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under a big cup there was a
whole bunch of broken glass.
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Well lucky you, what else
do you have in your pocket?
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Lets see, I've got a
battery - ooh that is cool.
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Does it work -
no clue - no clue.
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But it is just in case, right?
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Yeah - it's awesome -
I've got this little guy I'm
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borrowing from Alex -
it's like your Buddy - yeah.
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Yeah cool, what else -
I've got a sand dollar.
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I wish I had a few more those.
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When I go to the beach it
seems most of the same dollars
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are more like 50 cent
pieces, they are all broken.
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I found a whole
bunch at San Diego.
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At San Diego - yeah!
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Well I guess I'm
going to have to San Diego.
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Um some baby pinecones
- oh those are beautiful.
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I love those because
they are perfect miniatures
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of the big ones.
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Yeah and you can put
them in like a vase and stuff.
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Yeah awesome, got
any more treasures?
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I've got a rusty old nail.
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I think that has got
to be my favorite so far,
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do you remember
where you found that?
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Yeah I found it
in an abandoned farm.
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It's got be an antique.
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This is my
favorite out of all of them.
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And what is that?
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It's the perfect
skipping stone - so it is.
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Have you tried it out yet?
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No, just waiting g
for the right moment.
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Right moment, whoa.
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Will you know sometimes I
keep stuff in my pockets too.
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Really - yeah, but sometimes
it's not too interesting.
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Like what do you have?
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What do I have well, in
my pocket I don't have much.
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I have an old crumpled up poem.
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And I have way on
the bottom, let me see.
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I've got some fuzz - fuzz
- fuzz, think that's weird
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to have in your pocket?
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Well not really - not really!
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Well I know a lady that
does nothing but collect fuzz.
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She has a whole board with
all differed colors and kinds of
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fuzz all over it.
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That's weird - it is weird.
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Tell you what you can
find more weird stuff down the
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creek, do you want to go?
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Okay - alright I think I'll turn
on our rock tumbler before I go.
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I've got some rocks in here
that actually start out like
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this, they are pretty rough,
I find them in the garden.
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After I polish them a
while, they start looking like
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this, you know
they look pretty good.
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Except there's a little
black on it - that's right.
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There is still some flaws
in there - so I put them back
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in the tumbler and it takes
weeks and weeks, I let it run.
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And then we put some polish
in there and that puts the
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finishing touch on it.
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So it's like you
wait for perfection!
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You have got it Michael my boy.
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Let's plug it in
and head for the creek.
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Roll up your
pant legs, here we go.
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Hey he must be two inches long.
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Haven't we had so
much fun today - yeah!
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We have found a lot of
treasure down in the creek.
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All kinds of strange
and wonderful things.
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I bet you can't
guess what we found?
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What was the weirdest
thing we found Michael?
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Crawdads - crawdads Yep!
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We found some crawdads,
why don't we show them.
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What have you
got, have one in there?
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Well I think - oh it's
so cute, look at him go.
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His name is Escardo
- Escardo, what a name.
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And we got this one,
he jumped in our net.
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Yeah! That's the first
time that's ever happened to me.
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Usually I go splashing
through the creek trying to find
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them, I get in the way.
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We have another one, is
this the feisty one - yes.
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Yes! - that's the feisty
one, baby one is right here!
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His name is shrimp -
oh shrimp, isn't he sweet!
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Look at the size of
his tiny little pinchers.
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You know if you'll hold
him there I will show you on
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this one, let's pick up
this medium sized guy we've got.
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See the pinchers on this guys
feet, hold him up from behind.
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Look at the pinchers even, his
smallest pinchers on this guy,
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he has them on every leg.
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That, did you see that,
look at him he likes to flip
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his tail when he's trying
to go to swim in the water.
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He's going to get you - yeah!
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But even his smaller pinchers
are bigger than this guys.
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This one, if you get pinched
you pretty much can't even
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feel it - that's good.
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Then there is
another old guy here.
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I think this must be
old man of the river.
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Look at that! He's got
long eyebrows, isn't he cute?
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What I like about this
one, look at his claws.
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Put this one up for you.
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One claw is much, much
bigger than the other one.
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The mighty conquering hero,
that is because he got in a
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fight at one point.
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At some point he lost one
of his claws, and this one
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kept on growing, but this
one had to grow from scratch.
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He had a growing new in
here so that ones smaller.
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But he has
certainly an interesting life.
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Michael we have had
such a ball today - yeah!
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Why don't we take these
crawled dads down, and why don't
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you let them go because we want
to catch them again another day.
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Okay - while you're doing
that, I'm going to talk to
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kids at home and have them
write down my address again.
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Because I would love to
find out about your treasures.
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I would love to
know all about your life.
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I would like to know what
kind of things do you collect.
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What do you have in
your pockets right now?
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I wish you could write to
me and tell me all about it.
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It's just a thrill to
me when I get the mail.
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So if you have your pencil and
paper ready here's my address.
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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 may want 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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Wasn't that crawdad with
the tiny claws a real treasure?
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I have all kinds of treasured
things in my house too.
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Let me tell you
about some of them.
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I love to make quilts.
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For a long time I only
made baby quilts because we were
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getting lots of grandbabies
born into our family.
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This is one I made for Kristin.
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It took a long time to design
it put it together, do all the
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embroidery, then sew on all
the beads, ribbons, and pearls.
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And then to sew on
all these tiny stitches.
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Quilts are a lot of
work, but I like things
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that take a lot of effort.
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It gives me a real sense of
satisfaction when it is all done
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I've made some big
quilts for beds and some other
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smaller ones to
hang on the wall.
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Like this one with
all the vests on it.
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It has some different
and special on each vest.
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Sometimes I even
enter my quilts in contests,
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and I go to the fair.
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And guess what, sometimes I win.
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I love little glass baskets too.
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Usually grandpa buys
me one for my birthday.
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Once in a while I'll buy one
for myself, just to remind me
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of the special place he
and I have been together.
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Don't you love
the pretty colors?
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And being small just
makes it even prettier.
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Oh and little tea
things. I have 2, or 3
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wonderful little tea sets.
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I have some beautiful
little tea pots and teaspoons.
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And all kinds of tea things.
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I guess I just
really like little things.
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Now you know about my stuff,
I want to know about your stuff.
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Write and tell me
about your treasures and the
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things you collect.
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You can draw pictures
and tell me why they're so
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important to you, I
would really like to know.
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But before you have to go
today look straight into my
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eyes, remember
this of all my treasures
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you are the most valuable.
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My grandchildren are
scattered all over the world.
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Your like hidden
treasure just like the agate
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scattered in the creek.
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Jesus says the kingdom
of heaven is like treasure
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hidden in a field.
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He's talking
about you, you know.
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You are His treasures, and you
are what makes up His kingdom.
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I'm part of it too.
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Jesus calls us
His special treasures.
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He calls us jewels, like
diamonds and rubies and emeralds
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Just think us, were
valuable, we are lovable.
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Never forget how precious
you are to God and to me.
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You might feel like plain
old rock buried in the dirt.
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That you have no real value
and no one sees you anyway.
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Just like the agates I find
out in the garden, they don't
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look like much love
when I dig them up at first.
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They are all encrusted
with dirt and they are really
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rough on the outside.
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You can't see the
real gem inside until you
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put in the rock tumbler.
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In the grip rubs
off all the sharp edges.
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Sometimes God has to
do that with His gems too.
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But remember these two
things, God made you and He said
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you are the most valuable
of everything He ever made.
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2. God knows
exactly where you are.
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Sometimes God hides His
treasures to protect them from
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other people who
might harm them in some way
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or try to steal them away.
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Nobody around you might
recognize that you are a real
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gem, but that
doesn't mean you aren't one.
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The real you is inside of you.
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And nobody can
change your value.
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God and I think you
are a real treasure.
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Do you know where I keep
my real treasures, I keep them
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real close to my heart
and that's where you belong.
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Be sure to come back and see
me again real soon won't you?
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I love you so very much.
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