How are you kids
doing are you about finished
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on the boxes? Yeah
let's get them dry.
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Alright what you can do
then is paint doors and windows
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on the boxes with other colors.
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I bet you're wondering
what I'm doing with this big
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old box aren't you?
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Well I happen to have gotten
a letter from a young lady.
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I believe she lives,
yes in Green Bay Wisconsin.
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You know I told you if you
would write to me and ask for
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certain programs
we would do them.
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Well Madeleine is this girl's
name and she is eight years
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old and in the third grade.
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Ah, she wrote me a
poem too and it says,
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grandmas are
worth more than a Pearl,
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more than a dove and gold.
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They are worth
more than a princess
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but worth a friend or
a sister and God loves
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grandmas very, very much.
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I'm so glad she wrote to tell
me that, she wrote that poem
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herself but what she wanted
us to do on one of our shows
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was what we are doing behind us.
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Dear grandma, I would like
to see you have a play about
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Zacchaeus the tax
collector who was small.
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I want wee little grandpa
to play wee little Zacchaeus
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up in the tree.
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Maybe he could stand on a
chair and maybe you could have
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a beauty contest for the
prettiest dog who gets dressed
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up in dog clothes.
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I wrote you a poem, I
love you grandma with love from
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Madeleine. Well I
love you too Madeleine.
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Because you asked us
to do this, this is what
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we are doing today.
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We are painting the buildings
of Jericho behind us and we
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are going to do the
play about Zacchaeus.
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We are even going to have
wee little grandpa get up in the
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tree and play
wee little Zacchaeus.
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So come along with us
guys, come and play with us.
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As we build a town
and have fun, here we go.
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I am putting the colorful
paint in here to decorate our
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houses, we are going to
put flowers and doorways.
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I think I should have
shook that a little more don't
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you think? It's a little glumpy.
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It's going to make some
gorgeous flowers though.
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It's like making pancake batter.
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Alright let's try this again.
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Hey kids who wants to
see grandpa jump in the tree?
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- I do - I do - I do,
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Yeah I think we'll
have him be Zacchaeus.
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Wow Kristen that is gorgeous.
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Oh, you need some more
paint though don't you?
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You are about to run
out, ah that is lovely.
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Is this the front door? (child
shaking head yes) beautiful
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I bet no house in Jericho
was that beautiful before.
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I don't know, how
did you get in there?
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I just tipped
it over. - you did?
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This is fun.
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Hey, we have got the
prettiest houses in Jericho and
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we are ready to go.
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Kids are you
ready to move? - yeah!
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It's moving day so
let's go and make Jericho.
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Come on! Sophie come on
girl lets lead the parade.
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Good girl. Wee!
Careful across the bridge.
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That's the way,
straight look at me.
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Good job, good job, keep coming.
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Yeah, keep coming.
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Good job and you just keep
going right on down that way.
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No we are going
down the grassy area.
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Keep it straight boys,
good job and follow the girls.
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Good job, good job.
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Good job you're
doing just dandy.
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Yeah to the grassy area.
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Come on Sophie
lets go with the kids.
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Oh the road wreck, emergency
aid vehicle on the way.
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Welcome to Jericho.
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Alright guys I
want you to make a town.
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I want you to put these
boxes and make Jericho all over
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this area, come on guys
stand them up like on a street.
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Oh ha-ha-ha-ha, oh
(your house fell down.)
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These are the buildings of
Jericho and we are over here
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to make a town now.
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And we'll make the main
theme of making our play.
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Jericho has never looked
so fine, what do you think?
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Well it is time to dress
the inhabitants of Jericho.
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So kids, come and
get your costumes.
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There we go, wait, wait!
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I don't know let's
have you put this one on.
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Then you could put
this across your shoulders.
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All right, we are all in
place now and it is show time.
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Here's Jesus, and way
back there we have Zacchaeus.
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And here is all the crowd,
all the rabble that made all
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the fun, here's a soldier.
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So we are ready to
start on our way to Jericho.
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We might run into a
blind man on the way.
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As Jesus was coming near
Jericho a certain blind man
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sitting by the road was begging.
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So they told him that Jesus
of Nazareth was passing by.
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So he cried out saying,
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Son of David please
have some mercy on me.
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Be quiet, hush, you're
just a blind man, go away.
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So Jesus stood still and He
commanded that the blind man
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be brought to Him.
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When the blind man came
near, Jesus asked him saying,
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what do you want
Me to do for you?
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And the blind man said, Lord
that I may receive my sight.
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Then Jesus said to him,
receive your sight your faith
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has made you well.
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And immediately he received
his sight and all the people
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when they I saw it
gave praise to God.
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Then Jesus entered and passed
into Jericho and there was
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a man there named
Zacchaeus who was a chief
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tax collector
and he was very rich.
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And Zacchaeus was looking
to see who Jesus was but he
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couldn't
because he was so short.
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So he ran ahead and climbed
up into a Sycamore tree so
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that he could see Jesus,
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because he was
going to go by that way.
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When Jesus came to the place
he looked up and saw him and
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said, Zacchaeus get down from
that tree because I'm hungry
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and I want to have
lunch at your house.
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Who me? I'm coming.
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So Zacchaeus make haste and
came down and received Jesus
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joyfully but the rest of
us when we saw did we like it?
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No, they said Jesus has
gone to eat with a sinner.
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But then Zacchaeus stood
up and said to the Lord, look
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Lord I have given half
of my goods to the poor.
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If I have taken anything
from anyone I will restore it
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fourfold and Jesus says,
today salvation has come to this
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house and that's the end
of the story of Zacchaeus.
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I'm so glad that
Madeleine asked for that.
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Well for now what I
would like you to do is to get
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a pencil and paper ready
and write down my address.
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You can send some ideas
for programs you like too.
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Are you ready? Here it comes.
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Hey kids Graham Joyce
would love to hear from you.
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So why not sit down
and write her a letter?
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Like every grandma
she loves to get pictures,
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drawings or
anything else you sent her.
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Just write to:
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So what are you
waiting for? Write her today.
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Oh how I wish every one of
you sweet kids could have been
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here today, and I really
wish you could have seen how
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we got grandpa up into the tree.
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Madeleine had suggested a
chair but it took a ladder.
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All of us had to hold it
steady so he wouldn't fall and
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he was pretty
nervous about it, but wasn't
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he a great sport?
I just love grandpa.
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How many of you
like to climb trees?
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I know a lot of you to
but some folks just prefer
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staying on the ground.
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Myself I like going up,
but it is the coming down
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that scares me.
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I remember one time several
years ago when I wanted to
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climb up onto a fire
lookout tower in a national park
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up near Mount Hood in Oregon.
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It was a sturdy tower
and it had been built just
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so visitors could get
in Eagle's nest view of
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the whole forest below.
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It had a big pole up the
middle with flights of stairs
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making a square box around it.
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It was perfectly safe I
knew, but still I looked at it a
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long time before I got up
the courage to start climbing.
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It was easy at first until
I got to the top of the first
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set of stairs, then it started
to feel a little exciting
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and I wanted to see how it
would feel to be a little bit
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higher so up I went
another flight of stairs.
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When I stopped there to
look around, little butterflies
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started to flutter around
in my tummy and I hung onto the
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railing a little tighter.
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It was still exciting and
not really scary yet so I went
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up again and again.
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Now even if I didn't look
away from the stairs I could
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tell I was definitely up
pretty high in the air because
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now instead of there
being shrubs and trees under the
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stairs I could see
the sky down there.
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It wasn't so much fun now
as my middle began to really
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shake, but I come this far
and I really wanted to make
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it to the top.
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So I gulped some fresh air
and asked my husband to stay
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right on the step behind me
so if I slipped I would fall
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on him and not crash
all the way to the bottom.
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He said, don't look down.
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Boy I tried, but I knew
down was all around me and now
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I was getting a little dizzy.
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Now this little venture of
mine had become a challenge to
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me and I thought I can't
stop now, I don't want to fail.
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Every step took courage,
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or maybe it was
just stubbornness.
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I couldn't tell anymore,
but I was so scared I kept
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pushing on even though every
thing in me screamed to stop.
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Up and up, higher and higher
only thinking about making
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it to the top and
definitely not thinking about
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how to get down again.
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Until at last I put my shaky
foot on the tower floor and
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I crept toward the pole in
the center and I grabbed on so
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tight the blood
all left my fingers.
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I could see straight
down through the metal mesh,
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and that was the floor.
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The ground never in my
whole life looked so far way.
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I try to lift my eyes to enjoy
the view that I had worked so
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hard to glimpse, but I couldn't
say I exactly enjoyed it.
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All I can think of now was
how am I going to get down from
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here, and I clung to
the pole all the tighter.
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Did you ever get
yourself into a fix like that?
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Maybe ventured out to
look too far and didn't know
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how to get back again?
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I kind of think we are all
like that sometimes because
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we all love adventure and
sometimes it is just so hard to
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tell where the adventure
ends and the foolishness begins.
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Aren't people the funniest
creatures, sometimes we are so
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silly it makes
me laugh at myself.
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Well anyway it took a couple
of forest rangers climbing up
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to help me let go of the
pole in the middle and with one
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in front of me and one
behind I slowly made my way
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safely back down to
good old mother Earth again
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still trembling all over.
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Well I certainly
never did that again.
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Maybe other silly things
but never that one again.
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I wonder if wee little
grandpa felt that way when
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he got back down
from our Sycamore tree?
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Hmmm, maybe, but here's
something I'm pretty sure about.
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I think Zacchaeus was really
glad to get down on of his
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tree and take
Jesus home with him.
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And that's the thing I
want you to remember about the
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story of
Zacchaeus and Jesus and you.
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No matter the scrapes
we get ourselves into,
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Jesus can always help you
keep your feet on the ground
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again all safe and sound.
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After that it is
really a good idea to take
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Jesus on home with you.
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Do that today and
don't forget, get to know
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Jesus better every day.
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No girls allowed.
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You don't want me to
take you just wanted to see me
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up in the tree longer.
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I have to pick it up
with a stick. Trust me.
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