Participants: Joyce Neal
Series Code: GH
Program Code: GH000015
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00:01 How are you kids doing are you about finished
00:03 on the boxes? Yeah let's get them dry. 00:07 Alright what you can do then is paint doors and windows 00:11 on the boxes with other colors. 00:14 I bet you're wondering what I'm doing with this big 00:17 old box aren't you? 00:19 Well I happen to have gotten a letter from a young lady. 00:22 I believe she lives, yes in Green Bay Wisconsin. 00:27 You know I told you if you would write to me and ask for 00:30 certain programs we would do them. 00:32 Well Madeleine is this girl's name and she is eight years 00:36 old and in the third grade. 00:41 Ah, she wrote me a poem too and it says, 00:44 grandmas are worth more than a Pearl, 00:46 more than a dove and gold. 00:49 They are worth more than a princess 00:51 but worth a friend or a sister and God loves 00:55 grandmas very, very much. 00:58 I'm so glad she wrote to tell me that, she wrote that poem 01:01 herself but what she wanted us to do on one of our shows 01:05 was what we are doing behind us. 01:07 Dear grandma, I would like to see you have a play about 01:11 Zacchaeus the tax collector who was small. 01:14 I want wee little grandpa to play wee little Zacchaeus 01:19 up in the tree. 01:21 Maybe he could stand on a chair and maybe you could have 01:24 a beauty contest for the prettiest dog who gets dressed 01:28 up in dog clothes. 01:30 I wrote you a poem, I love you grandma with love from 01:34 Madeleine. Well I love you too Madeleine. 01:37 Because you asked us to do this, this is what 01:40 we are doing today. 01:41 We are painting the buildings of Jericho behind us and we 01:45 are going to do the play about Zacchaeus. 01:47 We are even going to have wee little grandpa get up in the 01:50 tree and play wee little Zacchaeus. 01:53 So come along with us guys, come and play with us. 01:56 As we build a town and have fun, here we go. 02:18 I am putting the colorful paint in here to decorate our 02:21 houses, we are going to put flowers and doorways. 02:26 I think I should have shook that a little more don't 02:28 you think? It's a little glumpy. 02:30 It's going to make some gorgeous flowers though. 02:37 It's like making pancake batter. 02:39 Alright let's try this again. 02:42 Hey kids who wants to see grandpa jump in the tree? 02:45 - I do - I do - I do, 02:47 Yeah I think we'll have him be Zacchaeus. 02:50 Wow Kristen that is gorgeous. 02:53 Oh, you need some more paint though don't you? 02:56 You are about to run out, ah that is lovely. 03:00 Is this the front door? (child shaking head yes) beautiful 03:03 I bet no house in Jericho was that beautiful before. 03:09 I don't know, how did you get in there? 03:10 I just tipped it over. - you did? 03:14 This is fun. 03:17 Hey, we have got the prettiest houses in Jericho and 03:20 we are ready to go. 03:21 Kids are you ready to move? - yeah! 03:24 It's moving day so let's go and make Jericho. 03:26 Come on! Sophie come on girl lets lead the parade. 03:30 Good girl. Wee! Careful across the bridge. 03:35 That's the way, straight look at me. 03:38 Good job, good job, keep coming. 03:41 Yeah, keep coming. 03:44 Good job and you just keep going right on down that way. 03:52 No we are going down the grassy area. 03:54 Keep it straight boys, good job and follow the girls. 03:59 Good job, good job. 04:05 Good job you're doing just dandy. 04:08 Yeah to the grassy area. 04:22 Come on Sophie lets go with the kids. 04:31 Oh the road wreck, emergency aid vehicle on the way. 04:40 Welcome to Jericho. 04:42 Alright guys I want you to make a town. 04:48 I want you to put these boxes and make Jericho all over 04:50 this area, come on guys stand them up like on a street. 04:53 Oh ha-ha-ha-ha, oh (your house fell down.) 05:08 These are the buildings of Jericho and we are over here 05:11 to make a town now. 05:12 And we'll make the main theme of making our play. 05:22 Jericho has never looked so fine, what do you think? 05:25 Well it is time to dress the inhabitants of Jericho. 05:28 So kids, come and get your costumes. 05:42 There we go, wait, wait! 05:49 I don't know let's have you put this one on. 05:51 Then you could put this across your shoulders. 06:01 All right, we are all in place now and it is show time. 06:05 Here's Jesus, and way back there we have Zacchaeus. 06:08 And here is all the crowd, all the rabble that made all 06:12 the fun, here's a soldier. 06:13 So we are ready to start on our way to Jericho. 06:16 We might run into a blind man on the way. 06:19 As Jesus was coming near Jericho a certain blind man 06:23 sitting by the road was begging. 06:25 So they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. 06:29 So he cried out saying, 06:31 Son of David please have some mercy on me. 06:33 Be quiet, hush, you're just a blind man, go away. 06:38 So Jesus stood still and He commanded that the blind man 06:42 be brought to Him. 06:44 When the blind man came near, Jesus asked him saying, 06:48 what do you want Me to do for you? 06:50 And the blind man said, Lord that I may receive my sight. 06:55 Then Jesus said to him, receive your sight your faith 06:59 has made you well. 07:01 And immediately he received his sight and all the people 07:03 when they I saw it gave praise to God. 07:07 Then Jesus entered and passed into Jericho and there was 07:11 a man there named Zacchaeus who was a chief 07:15 tax collector and he was very rich. 07:17 And Zacchaeus was looking to see who Jesus was but he 07:21 couldn't because he was so short. 07:23 So he ran ahead and climbed up into a Sycamore tree so 07:27 that he could see Jesus, 07:29 because he was going to go by that way. 07:30 When Jesus came to the place he looked up and saw him and 07:34 said, Zacchaeus get down from that tree because I'm hungry 07:38 and I want to have lunch at your house. 07:42 Who me? I'm coming. 07:45 So Zacchaeus make haste and came down and received Jesus 07:48 joyfully but the rest of us when we saw did we like it? 07:51 No, they said Jesus has gone to eat with a sinner. 07:57 But then Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, look 08:04 Lord I have given half of my goods to the poor. 08:06 If I have taken anything from anyone I will restore it 08:11 fourfold and Jesus says, today salvation has come to this 08:16 house and that's the end of the story of Zacchaeus. 08:20 I'm so glad that Madeleine asked for that. 08:23 Well for now what I would like you to do is to get 08:26 a pencil and paper ready and write down my address. 08:30 You can send some ideas for programs you like too. 08:33 Are you ready? Here it comes. 08:38 Hey kids Graham Joyce would love to hear from you. 08:41 So why not sit down and write her a letter? 08:43 Like every grandma she loves to get pictures, 08:45 drawings or anything else you sent her. 08:48 Just write to: 09:01 So what are you waiting for? Write her today. 09:07 Oh how I wish every one of you sweet kids could have been 09:11 here today, and I really wish you could have seen how 09:15 we got grandpa up into the tree. 09:17 Madeleine had suggested a chair but it took a ladder. 09:21 All of us had to hold it steady so he wouldn't fall and 09:25 he was pretty nervous about it, but wasn't 09:27 he a great sport? I just love grandpa. 09:30 How many of you like to climb trees? 09:33 I know a lot of you to but some folks just prefer 09:36 staying on the ground. 09:38 Myself I like going up, but it is the coming down 09:41 that scares me. 09:43 I remember one time several years ago when I wanted to 09:46 climb up onto a fire lookout tower in a national park 09:49 up near Mount Hood in Oregon. 09:51 It was a sturdy tower and it had been built just 09:54 so visitors could get in Eagle's nest view of 09:57 the whole forest below. 09:59 It had a big pole up the middle with flights of stairs 10:03 making a square box around it. 10:05 It was perfectly safe I knew, but still I looked at it a 10:09 long time before I got up the courage to start climbing. 10:12 It was easy at first until I got to the top of the first 10:16 set of stairs, then it started to feel a little exciting 10:20 and I wanted to see how it would feel to be a little bit 10:23 higher so up I went another flight of stairs. 10:26 When I stopped there to look around, little butterflies 10:29 started to flutter around in my tummy and I hung onto the 10:32 railing a little tighter. 10:34 It was still exciting and not really scary yet so I went 10:39 up again and again. 10:41 Now even if I didn't look away from the stairs I could 10:44 tell I was definitely up pretty high in the air because 10:48 now instead of there being shrubs and trees under the 10:51 stairs I could see the sky down there. 10:53 It wasn't so much fun now as my middle began to really 10:58 shake, but I come this far and I really wanted to make 11:02 it to the top. 11:03 So I gulped some fresh air and asked my husband to stay 11:07 right on the step behind me so if I slipped I would fall 11:11 on him and not crash all the way to the bottom. 11:13 He said, don't look down. 11:16 Boy I tried, but I knew down was all around me and now 11:20 I was getting a little dizzy. 11:22 Now this little venture of mine had become a challenge to 11:26 me and I thought I can't stop now, I don't want to fail. 11:30 Every step took courage, 11:33 or maybe it was just stubbornness. 11:35 I couldn't tell anymore, but I was so scared I kept 11:39 pushing on even though every thing in me screamed to stop. 11:44 Up and up, higher and higher only thinking about making 11:48 it to the top and definitely not thinking about 11:51 how to get down again. 11:53 Until at last I put my shaky foot on the tower floor and 11:57 I crept toward the pole in the center and I grabbed on so 12:01 tight the blood all left my fingers. 12:04 I could see straight down through the metal mesh, 12:07 and that was the floor. 12:10 The ground never in my whole life looked so far way. 12:15 I try to lift my eyes to enjoy the view that I had worked so 12:19 hard to glimpse, but I couldn't say I exactly enjoyed it. 12:23 All I can think of now was how am I going to get down from 12:27 here, and I clung to the pole all the tighter. 12:32 Did you ever get yourself into a fix like that? 12:34 Maybe ventured out to look too far and didn't know 12:37 how to get back again? 12:39 I kind of think we are all like that sometimes because 12:42 we all love adventure and sometimes it is just so hard to 12:45 tell where the adventure ends and the foolishness begins. 12:49 Aren't people the funniest creatures, sometimes we are so 12:53 silly it makes me laugh at myself. 12:56 Well anyway it took a couple of forest rangers climbing up 13:00 to help me let go of the pole in the middle and with one 13:04 in front of me and one behind I slowly made my way 13:08 safely back down to good old mother Earth again 13:11 still trembling all over. 13:15 Well I certainly never did that again. 13:17 Maybe other silly things but never that one again. 13:20 I wonder if wee little grandpa felt that way when 13:24 he got back down from our Sycamore tree? 13:26 Hmmm, maybe, but here's something I'm pretty sure about. 13:30 I think Zacchaeus was really glad to get down on of his 13:34 tree and take Jesus home with him. 13:37 And that's the thing I want you to remember about the 13:40 story of Zacchaeus and Jesus and you. 13:43 No matter the scrapes we get ourselves into, 13:45 Jesus can always help you keep your feet on the ground 13:49 again all safe and sound. 13:50 After that it is really a good idea to take 13:53 Jesus on home with you. 13:54 Do that today and don't forget, get to know 13:58 Jesus better every day. 14:07 No girls allowed. 14:19 You don't want me to take you just wanted to see me 14:21 up in the tree longer. 14:22 I have to pick it up with a stick. 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Revised 2014-12-17