Participants: Joyce Neal
Series Code: GH
Program Code: GH000022
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00:01 Hello kids once again we are out having a great time on
00:04 Grandma's House and I'm still on vacation in southern 00:07 Illinois and this is Rend Lake. 00:08 We are going to go out sailing today, have you ever 00:12 been on a sailboat? I never have. Have you guys? 00:15 Oh you have, well good, I have some old pros with me. 00:19 Anyway we are about ready to get on the water. 00:20 Come on along we are going to have a blast again today. 00:23 Come on let's go boys. 00:43 I'm ready are you guys? I can't wait. 00:47 Oh alright, Of course the first issue is safety. 00:50 So let's put some life jackets on. - will this do? 00:54 I brought my rubber ducky. - that will work? 00:56 - it will, it will work real well. 00:57 Alright, I'm ready. 01:01 Gabrielle let's get you a life jacket. - I'm ready. 01:05 I better put mine on too. It's a good thing to have. 01:08 You have your rubber ducky and I've got a life jacket. 01:12 We will be ready to go. 01:16 Alright we are ready. We're going to get the motor going, 01:20 put the motor out there, we'll anchor, and then 01:22 we'll put up the sails. 01:23 I'll pull the anchor and were ready to take off. 01:25 All right, well let's hit it. 01:29 Oh there we go, and we are off. 01:31 They will see you out on the lake folks, come on! 01:41 Well our captain is dropping anchor off the front of the 01:45 boat, and he is doing that because then and he is going 01:48 to put up the sails, and then we will sail under wind 01:51 power for a while. 01:57 Oh isn't this fun, how fast are we going do you think? 01:59 Oh not too fast, we don't want to go too fast. 02:01 Oh it seems fast to me. 02:08 Oh it is a beautiful day for sailing, look straight up there 02:11 right up the mask at those blue skies. 02:15 This is the most amazing thing and we're learning about 02:18 sailing and about the wind and it's great. 02:25 I just love the water. 02:46 There's some hotshots float around on our boat on his jet 02:49 skis, you know it looks awfully enticing to me. 02:52 What about you? I think I would like to get a ride on 02:57 that thing. What about you? 02:58 Alright how are we going to do that? 03:00 You think if we waved him down he might come over? 03:03 Let's try, I'll wave my hat, oops he's not looking here. 03:07 Look at him go. 03:23 Hi there! 03:29 Hi! - hi! you look like you are having fun out there. 03:33 It is nice. - It is a gorgeous day. 03:35 Um, I just wondered what I would have to do to persuade 03:38 you to take an old grandma liked me out on the jet skis? 03:41 All you got to do is leave the duck here. 03:43 I have to leave my duck? - you have to leave the duck. 03:46 Well I could probably do that. - let's go. 03:49 Alright could I trade you?. 03:52 Would you hold my hat for a second and we will get rid 03:55 of this, my lifelong buddy the duck. 04:00 Thank you, you have to hang on tight because the wind 04:02 is coming up. - there you go grandma. 04:04 Alright, thank you. 04:07 I'm taking my sailor cap with me, look at that. 04:10 From the marina, I think I'm official now. 04:13 I don't know if I'm going to lose it on this thing, 04:16 but here I go. How about a hand up there. - sure. 04:19 Ah, thank you. - you're welcome. 04:22 In my shipshape now to go? - you are all set. 04:24 Alright here I go. - Yep I can hold that 04:27 out of your way. 04:29 Come aboard into our first-class cabin. 04:34 Okay, alright. Are you back there? 04:39 Do I just grab a hold, is that the idea? 04:42 Hang on for dear life. - we're going to go flying. 04:44 He boys I'll be back after a bit. 04:48 Bye grandma. - bye. 04:55 Whoa! 05:49 Heh Joel, that was so much fun, thank you. 05:52 Just wondered, could I drive it by myself do you think? 05:55 You bet. - I could. - let's switch places and you'll 05:59 be the captain. - alright. 06:01 I'm going to get off here. - alright. 06:07 Alright you're going to take that and plug it right 06:09 in the there. - okay - you are all set. 06:14 Now you just hit the start button. - that's the start 06:17 button. - you will hit it once and you should be ready 06:19 to go. And that is your throttle. 06:21 Alright - see ya! 06:27 Bye grandpa, I might be back and I might not. 06:30 I'll see you kids later. 07:42 Oh Joel that was so much fun, thank you, thank you, thank you. 07:46 - no problem. - I think I'll have to get 07:47 me one of these. 07:48 Ah kids if you are ready why don't you write down my 07:51 address, I'm going to have them put it up on the screen 07:54 just any minute now so if you have your paper and pencil 07:57 here it comes. 08:01 Hey kids Graham Joyce would love to hear from you. 08:04 So why not sit down and write her a letter? 08:07 Like every grandma she loves to get pictures, 08:09 drawings or anything else you send her. 08:12 Just write to: 08:25 So what are you waiting for? Write her today. 08:31 Oh my, what did you think of that? 08:34 Not very grandmotherly huh? 08:36 I don't know what got into me. 08:39 One minute we were sailing smoothly along, we were in 08:42 harmony with the wind and the waves and then that little 08:45 sea-do came be bopping along and changed everything. 08:49 Our quite peaceful afternoon shattered into a million 08:52 sparkly drops of speed spray and a roaring engine. 08:56 Oh what was I thinking? It was really terribly shockingly 09:02 and unladylike of me as my grandma would have said. 09:05 She would have clucked her tongue and peered over her 09:07 glasses at me with great disapproval. 09:10 Well times have changed and grandma's have too. 09:13 I've been thinking about my grandma and what was 09:16 the most daring thing I can remember her doing. 09:19 I think it was a time when I was about nine years old 09:22 and she came to visit for a few days. 09:24 One afternoon all the neighbor hood kids came over to our 09:28 pasture to play baseball and grandma got right out there 09:31 with the rest of us and she played first base. 09:34 She was terrific, but best of all she could really send 09:40 the ball sailing when she was at bat. 09:43 One of the neighbor boys told my brother, sit down and 09:47 let your grandma bat, she can really slug em. 09:50 Oh grandma loved it when she heard that and she never 09:53 forgot it as long as she lived. 09:55 What about your grandma and grandpa? 09:57 What is the most daring thing they have ever done? 10:00 They might surprise you if you asked them. 10:03 And you should. Well what is the most daring thing you 10:07 have ever done? I sure wish you would tell me that 10:10 because I love to hear about all your adventures too. 10:13 Were you scared when you did it? 10:15 How did you feel after you accomplished the thing 10:19 you feared? Sometimes we let being afraid of failure 10:22 stop us from daring to do something bigger than 10:24 we have ever done before. 10:26 What if we fall flat on our face and let other people see 10:28 us? oww, will they laugh or make fun of our efforts? 10:32 Eeek, they might but how terrible would that be? 10:36 Not much really, we might get hurt or fall if we try 10:40 something challenging we have never tried before. 10:43 But we can ask an adult help us figure out the risks 10:46 before we go jumping off a cliff or the garage roof. 10:50 Then we could do something to prevent injury before it 10:54 happens, but if you end up scraping your knees, so what? 10:57 I'll bet Wilbur and Orval Wright had a few scrapes knees 11:01 before they got their first airplane into the air. 11:03 I know everybody who has ever achieved great a thing has 11:08 had plenty of failures before they had success. 11:11 So here's the thing about daring and dreaming, it's in 11:15 our very nature and God put it there. 11:16 See God is like that too, He has giant dreams for what 11:21 might be and He dares to do the most impossible things. 11:25 What's more He actually does them, 11:28 they are not just dreams to Him. 11:30 Like went He dreamed of making people in His own image 11:34 and giving them a whole new world to rule over. 11:37 What it those people didn't love Him back? 11:40 What if they didn't trust Him? 11:41 It was a daring prospect He was thinking about because 11:45 the people could choose to do anything they wanted. 11:48 They might choose to follow another leader. 11:51 Well God thought it was worth taking the chance because 11:55 the people He would make would be so happy with all the 11:58 wonderful things He would make for them. 12:01 And the wonderful times they would have together with Him, 12:04 ah, so He dared do the thing He was dreaming about. 12:09 What an exciting time He had as He carefully planned and 12:13 built the whole new world. 12:14 Everything just exactly right and He smiled while He worked. 12:19 When He was ready to make the people He molded them with 12:23 His own two hands and He gave them His very own breath 12:27 because He loved them so much and they were just like Him. 12:31 Then the most tragic thing happened. 12:35 One day the people were tricked into believing their enemy 12:38 instead of their Father God. 12:40 It was the saddest day ever and it looked like God's dream 12:44 had failed, somebody laughed at Him and made fun of His pain. 12:49 Somebody pointed at God and said He was a failure. 12:53 That somebody took God's world and ran off with it, 12:56 just like he owned the place. 12:58 He took all the people hostage too. 13:00 But did God give up? I think not. Did He stop dreaming? 13:06 No! Did He pack up His daring ways and go home? 13:10 Absolutely not! As soon as the people realized they had 13:14 made a terrible mistake, they were so sorry and wanted to 13:18 go home again, God dared to strive right after our kidnapper 13:22 and trounce him into the ground and let each person choose 13:25 all over again whom they would trust. 13:28 Yes even God got scraped knees and bruises on His arms 13:33 as He dared to rescue us and now He wants you to dream 13:38 and dare to do something for Him. 13:40 He doesn't care as much about what it is as that you'd 13:44 dare to do as He cares about the very fact that you care 13:48 to dream and be just like Him. 13:51 That was His dream in the first place, and that is His 13:55 dream now for you and me to be just like Him. 14:03 Oh I like the way he turns, oh! |
Revised 2014-12-17