Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, come on your story hours on.
Speaker 2: Welcome to your Story Hour. I'm Aunt Nicky and.
Speaker 3: I'm Uncle John, and we're here to bring you today's
inspiring story. Hello everyone, I'm Uncle John, Aunt Niki and
I are so happy you've joined us.
Speaker 2: Yes we are, and I'm sure all you boys and
girls are ready to hear today's story.
Speaker 3: I know I am, by the way, Aunt Nikki. Today's
story is a twofer.
Speaker 2: A twofer, what do you mean?
Speaker 3: I mean? Aunt Carol has two true stories to tell us,
one inside the other, and they're both about how God
helps us with even the small things in our lives.
We just need to ask him.
Speaker 2: Really, So why is one story inside the other?
Speaker 3: If it wasn't for the second story, the first story
wouldn't have a good ending.
Speaker 2: Now I'm really curious. I can't wait to hear them both.
Speaker 3: Okay, then let's get started.
Speaker 2: Great. So what's the title of this story within a story?
Speaker 3: It's called A Stalled Truck and the Lost Goddess.
Speaker 4: Our main story takes place in Missouri almost forty years ago.
On a hot summer day in July. Janet's family is
hosting a church group that will float on inner tubes
down current river, a clear, cold spring fed river. Preparations
are already under ways.
Speaker 1: Janet YadA with the please count the dinner tunes, then
on the truck.
Speaker 5: While I finished blowing up this last one, I'm want
to make sure we have enough for everyone.
Speaker 1: I've got two here with me. Okay, sure, let's see.
Speaker 6: There's four people in our family. Two in the Brown's,
fourness Dantons, three with the hoods. That makes thirteen, and
two or more with the Fentons. That makes fifteen people altogether.
There's two four, six, eight, ten twelve tubes in the
truck already, plus the dow Dad has.
Speaker 2: That makes fourteen.
Speaker 6: Dad, we need fifteen tubes and they're only fourteen aired up.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's put these last two in the truck with
the others. Okay, I'll go see if I can find
another one in the garage.
Speaker 7: Okay, Hey, Janet, how much longer before we leave?
Speaker 6: Well, Dun needs to find one more inner tube so
we'll have enough for everyone.
Speaker 1: Then they think we'll be about ready to go.
Speaker 6: Bobby, I think these two tubes must be truck inner tubes.
Speaker 1: They're huge.
Speaker 7: Well, little sister, I think you could stand up inside
of that one if you wanted to.
Speaker 8: I know, right, it's taller than I am.
Speaker 7: Are you going to take your goggles?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding?
Speaker 6: Floating would be boring without my goggles? Of course I'm
taking them. Besides, I can't wait to use my new goggles.
Speaker 8: In the river.
Speaker 7: Me too, I'll get it blown up. Wouldn't it be
cool if we found a lost wallet or maybe even
a ring.
Speaker 2: You mean like sunken treasure, No.
Speaker 7: Dummy, Sunken treasure comes from ships, and there aren't any
sunken ships on current river.
Speaker 6: Maybe not, but the neighbor's flat bottom boat sank last
year when they hit that tree.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but the only thing that sank was there fishing box.
That's not sunthing treasure.
Speaker 2: It might be if you were a fisherman.
Speaker 7: Sure, sure, Hey.
Speaker 5: You two cross this tube on the talk and let's
get them tied down. I think we're ready.
Speaker 4: As soon as everyone was together and ready to begin,
Janet's father addressed the group with last minute instructions.
Speaker 5: Okay, is everyone ready to take off of the river?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 5: Then we're going to drive around the other side of
the river and put in about six miles upstream. We'll
float down and get out at the end of the road.
It's only about a quarter a mile walk from the
river back to our house here. We should be back
here in about four hours.
Speaker 1: Right sounds good?
Speaker 5: Right behind you, Bob, One more thing before I forget.
When we near the end of the float, we'll recognize
it because the river will split and go around an island.
The right hand side is deeper and slower. That's the
one you want to take. We'll get out by the
big rock. The other side is shallower and much faster.
It will take you much further downriver and make it
difficult to get back up to the spot where we're
getting out. So just remember. If we get separated and
you see an island, take the right hand side and
wait there for the group so we can all get
out together. Does everyone understand, Okay, let's go.
Speaker 4: Thirty minutes later, the caravan arrived at the designated parking
lot and everyone climbed out.
Speaker 7: The last one in the water is a rutten neck.
Speaker 8: Come on, gang, let's beat it.
Speaker 1: I got here first.
Speaker 3: No you didn't.
Speaker 9: I did.
Speaker 1: Just because you're bigger, Does it mean you're faster?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, flash me? Will you take that?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 1: Yea come back and get your inner tubes.
Speaker 7: Okay, Dad, coming.
Speaker 10: Soon.
Speaker 4: All the kids and their parents were venturing into the
chili water, ready to launch their inner tubes for the
ride down the river.
Speaker 5: Hey, have you've seen any ice cubes floating by?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 9: It is colder than I thought it would be.
Speaker 5: You're right, dear, must because we're in the shade on
mom down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can do it.
Speaker 5: Once we get out on the river, and then the
sun will feel better, I hope.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 5: Okay, everyone on your tubes. Let's head out of the
cove into the main current.
Speaker 1: Stay together. Okay, wait me, you girls stay cloth to me.
Speaker 6: Okay, Mom, I don't want you floating off by yourself.
Speaker 1: Hey, mom, can you put my tube on diving?
Speaker 9: Sure, but wait until we get the group out into
the current and floating together.
Speaker 3: Mom, do I have to?
Speaker 1: Bobby's already using his goggles.
Speaker 9: He's much older than you are. Now, stay with the
group until we have everybody together, all right.
Speaker 8: Don't see what different age makes.
Speaker 2: I can swat just as well as he can.
Speaker 4: Once out in the river itself, the adults linked together
to form a loose circle so they could easily carry
on a conversation while floating down the river and still
keep an eagle eye on the kids.
Speaker 1: Now, Mom, can I use my goggles? Now?
Speaker 9: Off with you go enjoy the fish. Great Grobby too,
got it?
Speaker 1: Stay near your brother?
Speaker 9: Came on?
Speaker 8: Hey, got me Wait UPNDS, Anything interesting?
Speaker 7: Nope, I've just been going along the edge. Not much
there but some tiny fish and some tadpoles.
Speaker 6: Oh, I can touch bottom.
Speaker 8: Here.
Speaker 1: Look there's some rich log.
Speaker 6: Let's swim over to it.
Speaker 7: Okay, here we are, get your goggles on.
Speaker 6: I love this kind that covers my nose.
Speaker 3: Me too.
Speaker 2: Down we go.
Speaker 4: And so oh. Janet and Bobby began their adventure, repeatedly
diving and surfacing.
Speaker 7: Did you see the school of shiners near the bottom?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: But did you see that walleye hiding in the roofs?
I bet he was over a foot long.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think I saw a lure stuck in one of
the limbs on the side of the log. Let's go
back down and see if we can find it.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a beautiful lore. Look at that blue.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I think the hook is two damaged to
be used. I'm gonna save it anyway, Bobby.
Speaker 6: Come, look at these fish hiding in the trunk of
this tree.
Speaker 7: Hey, Janet, come see what I found.
Speaker 4: And so it went. For the next hour, Bobby and
Janet thoroughly explored each submerged tree in the river, looking
at the fish and hunting for fishing lures and anything
else that had been dropped into the river or snagged
on the tree prees. Then they heard Mom calling to them.
Speaker 9: Janet, Bobby, come on over and join the group for
a while and rest. A real shallow section is coming
up anyway.
Speaker 4: So they swam back to the group. Once there, they
immediately became interested with the stories the adults were telling
as they all floated down the river.
Speaker 7: That's amazing, Sharon.
Speaker 9: It definitely seems like God answers the prayers of children
more quickly than adults.
Speaker 2: It's almost as if God wants to feed their faith,
but test ours.
Speaker 5: Isn't that the truth?
Speaker 7: I heard my daughter pray for something and get an
immediate answer.
Speaker 3: A few days later, I can pray.
Speaker 9: For the same type of thing and nothing happens.
Speaker 7: Maybe the children have a more simple, trusting faith in
God than we do.
Speaker 9: Maybe it's our lack of faith that keeps Him from
answering us.
Speaker 5: You know that reminds me of something that happened to
us when Janet was.
Speaker 1: About four or five years old.
Speaker 5: We were living in Indiana at the time, and I
had just bought a new truck to use for my constructions.
Speaker 1: Hey, look, daddy's home and he has a new truck. Mom,
come out and see the new truck.
Speaker 5: What do you think, Janet? Do you like the truck?
Speaker 1: Yeah? It's pretty. Wow, Dad, this truck's a lot bigger
than the other one. Can I get in?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: Go ahead?
Speaker 9: Oh it's beautiful. However did you manage to get such
a new truck?
Speaker 5: I'm not sure. The man I bought it from wasn't
too willing to talk about the truck. Seems he was
only selling it because he needed the money fast. But
I drove it and it runs well. Everything seems to
be sound, so I couldn't pass it up. Shall we
go for a ride?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 5: Of course, Okay, pile in, let's go soon.
Speaker 4: All the family members were seated in the new truck
and enjoying their first ride.
Speaker 8: Ah.
Speaker 9: He even still has that new car smell, and the
seats look they'd hardly been used.
Speaker 1: How fast can it go?
Speaker 4: Dad?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm not going to find out on this gravel
roads on.
Speaker 4: The family enjoyed the drive immensely. It was the best
vehicle they'd ever had. It was comfortable and big enough
to carry all of Dad's construction equipment. That very weekend,
after church, it was raining outside, so the family decided
that instead of going for their usual walk after church,
they'd go for a drive in the new truck. Everything
went fine for the first half hour as they wound
through the back roads, enjoying the scenery, But then they
came to a creek they had to cross. Instead of
a bridge over the water, a covert had been placed
right in the creek bed and concrete poured over it
to make it smooth on top. Now, because of the rain,
the creek was deep and flowing over the top of
the covert and the concrete.
Speaker 9: How deep do you think the water.
Speaker 5: Is, Bob, doesn't seem to be more than a foot
and a half. See that water depth coal beside the concrete.
Speaker 1: Well, that's looking for this truck, is it?
Speaker 8: Dad?
Speaker 3: True?
Speaker 5: Son? Here we go.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to interrupt the story, Uncle John, but thinking
about the family's new truck just reminded me of a
funny story.
Speaker 3: Well, then, now's a good time to share it. Aunt, Nikki,
you know how much I love a funny story.
Speaker 2: Well, all right, here goes. Two men named Timmy and
Tommy each bought a vehicle that didn't have a gas
or brake pedal.
Speaker 3: They didn't how did they work?
Speaker 2: They were voice operated.
Speaker 3: Now that's unusual, it is.
Speaker 2: Timmy bought a voice activated car and Tommy bought a
voice activated truck.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: After several months, Timmy and Tommy decided to trade their
vehicles with each other. When Timmy handed his car keys
to Tommy, he said, this is a great car driving.
It is super simple. You say go and it'll go,
and you say stop and it'll stop.
Speaker 3: Sounds easy.
Speaker 2: It does sound easy. But when Tommy handed his truck
keys to Timmy, he said, well, my truck is voice
activated too. But to get it to go, you need
to say Praise the Lord, and in order for it
to stop, you need to say amen. Okay, Tommy said,
praise the Lord equals go and Amen equal stop. I
think I can remember that.
Speaker 3: It's a good thing Tommy could remember that. I don't
think I could.
Speaker 2: Well, for a while, Tommy remembered the instructions and he
had no problems driving his new truck over bridges, through tunnels,
and on winding dirt roads in the mountains. But one day,
as he careened around a sharp corner, Tommy saw that
up ahead there was a huge mud pit. Uh oh uh,
oh is right. Oh no, Tommy thought, I don't want
to get stuck in the mudpit. I'll never be able
to get out. I need to stop my truck before
I get to the mudpit. But Tommy was so frightened
and worried that he completely forgot the words that would
make the truck stop.
Speaker 3: Oh no.
Speaker 2: But remembering the power of prayer, Tommy prayed, Dear Jesus,
please help my truck to stop.
Speaker 4: Amen.
Speaker 2: Of course, as soon as he said amen, the truck
stopped right at the edge of the mud pit.
Speaker 3: Sh what a relief. It's a good thing that Amen
was the word he needed to use to make the
truck stop.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. Tommy was so happy that his truck had
stopped that he shouted, praise the Lord.
Speaker 3: Oh no, praise the Lord would make the truck go again.
Speaker 2: That's correct, he went right into the mudpit.
Speaker 3: That's a good one, Aunt Nikki.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you liked it. I know how much you
like jokes.
Speaker 3: I especially love reading the jokes and riddles in Clubhouse magazine.
They make me laugh, and I bet they'd make you
boys and girls laugh too.
Speaker 2: I know you're right, Uncle John. In addition to jokes,
Clubhouse is full of great stories and fun puzzles.
Speaker 3: And best of all, it's free.
Speaker 2: So we invite you to enjoy Clubhouse too.
Speaker 3: To access it, go to our website at your story
hour dot org. That's your story hour dot org. Then
click on the kid's corner in the menu.
Speaker 2: Once you're in the kids corner, you'll see lots of
fun things to do. You can join Adventures in the
Holy Bible are fun and easy Bible lessons, and.
Speaker 3: You can listen to the story of the Raven and
the Ring while you fill in the coloring book that
goes along with the story.
Speaker 2: Now, there's a new Clubhouse available every month, so don't
forget to keep visiting our website.
Speaker 3: That way, you always know the latest stories and the
funniest jokes.
Speaker 2: Uncle John, I think it's time to get back to
today's story.
Speaker 3: As you recall, Janet and our family and friends are
on a rafting trip. While they're floating down the river.
Janet listens to her father telling everyone a story that
happened years ago when he purchased a new truck.
Speaker 2: The family was out for a pleasant drive one rainy
day after church and had to drive through water from
an overflowing stream that was running over the road.
Speaker 3: And that's where we left off. So now let's continue
with our story. A stalled truck and the lost goggles.
Speaker 4: Janet and Bobby thought pushing through the stream over the
water covered colvert was great fun, and things went smoothly
until they emerged on the far side. Ben Suddenly the
truck began to study.
Speaker 9: Oh dear, what's happening.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure. Let me put the emergency brake now.
I'll shift into neutral and see if I can get
it started again. Hmm, well, let's try it again.
Speaker 1: What's the matter yet, Well, I'm.
Speaker 5: Not sure that it sounds like water got inside the
engine somewhere. I'll go out and lift the hood and
see if I can figure out what the problem is.
Speaker 1: Dad's got the hood up. I hope you can see
what's wrong. Are we gonna have to spend the night here, Mommy.
Speaker 9: No, I'm sure Daddy will figure out what's wrong. And
we'll all be on our way in no time.
Speaker 1: Dad's closing the hood and coming back in now. I
hope everything's okay you, daddy, you're all wet here.
Speaker 9: Scoot over and sit on my lap and give Daddy
some room to dry out.
Speaker 5: Well, I can't tell exactly what got wet, and with
the hood up, I wasn't helping matters. We'll just have
to sit and hope the heat of the motor dries
it out. Did you bring one of your books so
long to read? Mother?
Speaker 2: Well, not intentionally.
Speaker 1: Let me check.
Speaker 9: I might have left one here in my bag. Well,
look at this, I have the perfect book, cheaper by
the dozen. I guess I never took it out after
our picnic last week. Yay, let's see here. Where were we?
Speaker 4: Everyone settled back and listened contentedly to the story as
the rain pattered on the roof. But as it began
to grow dark, Janet grew restless.
Speaker 1: Isn't the truck dry now, Daddy, I'm getting hungry and cold.
Make it go.
Speaker 5: Well, I can try it again. Maybe we've waited long
enough for it to dry out.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The next day, Dad tried to discover where the water
had gotten into the engine.
Speaker 1: Did you figure it out yet, Dad?
Speaker 5: Nope, but I checked, cleaned and tightened everything I could
think of. I don't know what actually caused the problem,
but surely it won't happen again.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, however, it did happen again. If they weren't careful
every time it rained, they'd get stuck somewhere.
Speaker 7: On the road.
Speaker 4: Dad was too busy to take a day off and
take it to the mechanic, and they couldn't really afford
to fix it right now anyway, especially since the truck
ran perfectly as long as it wasn't raining. But then
every time they hit a puddle.
Speaker 3: Not again.
Speaker 5: I thought you fixed it well, I hoped I had. Wow,
that puddle was a lot deeper than I thought it
would be. Looks like we're stuck again.
Speaker 1: It's okay, Dad, I was going to have a test
first thing at school today. Anyway.
Speaker 5: Is that supposed to be the silver lining in our cloud?
Speaker 1: Well it is for me.
Speaker 9: I hope this rain doesn't make us any later to
Florence's surprise birthday party than we already are. As it is,
we won't get to surprise Florence with everyone else.
Speaker 1: I don't get to say surprise.
Speaker 9: No, you can still say surprise. I'm sure Florence would
really like that.
Speaker 1: Honey, No, not again. There goes my piece of cake.
Speaker 9: There goes the birthday party.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to miss the birthday party. I
may have birthday characters for Florence.
Speaker 5: See, Daddy, When am I ever going to be able
to get this thing fixed? Right?
Speaker 4: Finally, one rainy day came when Dad could not afford
to be delayed by the truck. He had an important
appointment to bid on a construction job. He had just
enough time to take Bobby to school, return home to
finish the last details on the bid, and then drive
to the appointment. Janet decided to go along for the ride.
They dropped Bobby off at school and on the way back.
Speaker 5: Man, Ray, it's really coming down. I'm having trouble seeing
the road.
Speaker 1: To watch for puddles.
Speaker 5: I'm trying, but I don't know if I will be
able to see them before I get to them. Oh no, no, no,
not no, not today. Well we won't be going anywhere now.
Speaker 1: Just make it go, Daddy.
Speaker 5: I wish I could, Janet. And today, of all days,
I'm supposed to meet with a prospective client, in an
hour to make a bid for a job. We needed
that job.
Speaker 1: But Jesus can make it work again, can't he, Daddy?
I suppose, Well, why don't we ask him? Right, Daddy,
Jesus can make the truck go?
Speaker 5: Well, Janet, Jesus can do anything he wants. I'm not
sure that starting our truck today is important enough for
him to do.
Speaker 1: But at church, my teacher says, Jesus cares about everything.
We just have to ask.
Speaker 10: I can't just tell him no. That would sound like
I don't believe God can do it. What if we
pray and God doesn't answer. I mean, this isn't an emergency.
We know that in a little over an hour the
truck will dry hour enough to start.
Speaker 3: So what do I do?
Speaker 1: Tell her?
Speaker 5: We can't pray and just wait it out.
Speaker 8: I can't do that.
Speaker 5: Maybe God will answer her because she's a little child. Okay,
if you want to pray, go ahead and pray.
Speaker 1: Okay, Dear Jesus, our truck go went and it won't
run anymore. Daddy has to get home right away. So
can you dry out the engine so we can go home?
Thank you? Ah man?
Speaker 5: Well, Daddy, Well, what Janet stuck?
Speaker 1: The truck, Daddy, don't.
Speaker 5: You think we should wait a while longer and let
Jesus have more time to work.
Speaker 1: Daddy, Jesus doesn't need time to work. He's done. Start
the truck.
Speaker 10: Please, God, please don't let down that little girl.
Speaker 1: See that I told you Jesus didn't any time to work.
Speaker 3: It's running perfectly.
Speaker 1: Let's say thank you Jesus.
Speaker 5: Yes, Janet, I think you should. It was your prayer,
he answered.
Speaker 1: Dear Jesus, thank you for trying the engine so fast
and for a dream my prayer.
Speaker 4: As Father brought his story to a close, he looked
around the group of friends, still joined in a circle
as they continued to float down the river.
Speaker 5: So, Sharon, I think you are probably right in saying
that children have a simple faith in God that allows
him to answer their prayers more often than ours. You know,
the Bible says that unless you are converted and become
as little children, you will by no means enter the
Kingdom of heaven.
Speaker 2: Do you remember hearing about when Jesus said that, Janet.
Speaker 9: No, I guess not just think God answered my prayer.
Speaker 5: He certainly did.
Speaker 3: Pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Hey, Mom, can Bobby and I go back to diving again.
Speaker 9: Sure honey, Okay, Bobby, let's go.
Speaker 6: There's another log over there with me.
Speaker 5: Score.
Speaker 4: Bobby and Janet spent the rest of the trip exploring
the sunken logs and big rocks in the river. They
saw lots of fish, found a couple of bobbers, and
even a set of keys. Finally tiring, they climbed back
on their tubes to float the remainder of the trip
with their goggles resting on their laps. Janet was especially
tired and laid her head back on the big inner
tube to lazily watch the tops of the trees slide
by against the blue sky.
Speaker 6: This has been a fabulous day. I'm so glad I
got these goggles at lack Norfolk last year. I see
so much better with them, and they never leak water
like my old ones used to. Oh, a blue dragonfly
flitting by? Now, an ugly old horse fly uugh, landed
right on my arm.
Speaker 1: Maybe I can kill it and feed it a fish?
Speaker 3: Ha?
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 6: Drop them in and steep anyone's hungry? What no takers, guys?
I have this big, juicy, fat horse fly here, and you're.
Speaker 2: Just gonna let him float away?
Speaker 10: Ha?
Speaker 6: Ha, yes, one less horse, fly, one happy fish?
Speaker 8: Can it?
Speaker 3: Can it? This is where we get out.
Speaker 1: You're headed toward the wrong side of the isle.
Speaker 2: Oh no, we're heading for the shallow side.
Speaker 6: I've got to paddle over to the other side and
join the group.
Speaker 8: I'll never make it this y.
Speaker 9: The river's going too fast.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: Wait, if it's shallow, I can just stand up and
walk to the island.
Speaker 1: What was that wait? Oh no, my goggles.
Speaker 6: I forgot they were on my lap and they fell
into the river.
Speaker 1: I got to find them. Okay, calm down. The water
is just deep enough and fast enough.
Speaker 6: Then I won't be able to see them unless I'm
floating with the river. But I didn't even see where
they went in, and the river is gonna carry them
away before I can even get to them. Ray that church,
my teacher says that Jesus cares about everything. You just
have to ask whoa Jesus answered my prayer about the
staved truck.
Speaker 3: So dear Jesus, please help.
Speaker 6: Me find my goggles.
Speaker 1: They're my favorite.
Speaker 8: Amen. Maybe if I get back on the.
Speaker 2: Tube and float with the river, I can stop.
Speaker 6: My goggles, stand still and face the current.
Speaker 1: Stand still, Okay, I'm standing still.
Speaker 2: This is ridiculous. Why am I just standing here?
Speaker 9: My goggles are rolling down the river.
Speaker 6: I'd better just start floating down looking for them.
Speaker 10: Stan and still and face the current.
Speaker 9: Okay, my goggles are floating down the river.
Speaker 7: I just know it.
Speaker 2: I'll never see them again.
Speaker 9: I'm going down river further.
Speaker 7: Stand still and face the current.
Speaker 6: Ah, all right, all right, but my goggles have to
be weighed down the river by now.
Speaker 1: With this current, I'll none.
Speaker 6: Of Like, wait, what's that rolling up on my feet?
Speaker 1: My goggles? My goggles? I can't believe it.
Speaker 6: Dear Jesus, I'm sorry for not really believing you would
help me. Thank you, thank you for giving me my
goggles back.
Speaker 2: Wow, Uncle John, that was an amazing answer to prayer.
With the way Janet was moving around in the water
so much, God had to send an angel to physically
guide those goggles to roll up onto her feet like that.
And you say that is a true story.
Speaker 3: Yes it is. Janet wrote it just as it happened.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Speaker 2: What a great experience to have.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Janet was very surprised and grateful for the way
that God showed her just how much He cares for her,
and the good news is that God cares for each
of us too and is interested in every little thing
that's going on in our lives.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: We just need to remember to stay in contact with God,
you know, Aunt Nikki.
Speaker 3: Prayer is really just talking with God as we talk
to our friends here.
Speaker 2: At your Story Hour. We believe in the power of prayer.
We pray for all you boys and girls in your
families all the time.
Speaker 3: In fact, our your story our team starts every workday
with prayer for all you boys and girls in your families.
So if you have any prayer requests or praises that
you would like for us to specifically mention in our prayers,
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to Aunt Nikki and Uncle John at your Story Hour
po Box eight Niles, Michigan, four nine one two zero.
Speaker 3: And in the meantime, remember that we're praying for you.
And also remember all the times, in all the ways
that God has answered your prayers in the past, because
remembering God's goodness helps build our faith and helps us
to trust Him
Speaker 2: More exactly, And now we have to go, but see
you again next time.