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Speaker 1: II. This is Cheryl. I just wanted to come and

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Speaker 1: bring you a story about spring and a promise. Every spring,

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Speaker 1: when the weather warms up, flowers start to grow, and

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Speaker 1: every flower is a promise of new life. This episode

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Speaker 1: is called the Promised Plant. There was once a promise

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Speaker 1: made to all the people of the world, and everyone

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Speaker 1: was waiting, and had been waiting long for it to

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Speaker 1: be kept. No one could remember who had made the promise,

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Speaker 1: but the little children were told that it had been

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Speaker 1: made by a great king who knew everything that had

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Speaker 1: ever happened and all things that would ever be. And

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Speaker 1: this was the promise. A wonderful flower was to grow

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Speaker 1: in a certain garden that would bring to the one

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Speaker 1: who owned the garden all the good things in the world.

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Speaker 1: Everyone waited and waited for the flower to come. Years

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Speaker 1: and years they had waited, summer after summer. Each new

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Speaker 1: little boy and girl that came into the world was

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Speaker 1: told of the great promise, And among the very first

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Speaker 1: things they did was to go about seeking the flower

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Speaker 1: and asking questions about it. But no one could tell

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Speaker 1: them anything except to repeat the promise that a beautiful

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Speaker 1: gift plant would someday grow upon the earth, which only

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Speaker 1: people with loving hearts could see, and they should be

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Speaker 1: greatly blessed. Everyone in the whole world went about looking

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Speaker 1: for this flower. Even though they did a great deal

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Speaker 1: of work and thought of other things. Yet they never

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Speaker 1: quite forgot the wonderful promise. Many of them prepared the

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Speaker 1: soil and made beautiful gardens to receive it. Some sought

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Speaker 1: far and wide for rare seeds and bulbs, which they

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Speaker 1: planted and watered. But only such plants grew, as everyone

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Speaker 1: had seen before, and so they still waited and searched.

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Speaker 1: Many others wished and wished, and some prayed and prayed,

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Speaker 1: but the precious seed did not come. The rich men

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Speaker 1: of the land had great parks laid out, the ground

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Speaker 1: was tilled, and everything kept ready for the plant to

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Speaker 1: find root. Many gardeners and watchers were hired to stay

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Speaker 1: there and watch for this wondrous flower and guarded. But

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Speaker 1: it did not come. Yet no one ever doubted the promise,

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Speaker 1: for everyone wished very much to have all the good

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Speaker 1: things which were to come with this flower. Among all

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Speaker 1: these people there was one very kind woman who did

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Speaker 1: many good deeds. She loved and cared for little children

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Speaker 1: who had no one to help them. One night, when

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Speaker 1: she came home from her work, what did she see

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Speaker 1: in a little broken flower pop that stood in her window?

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Speaker 1: A tiny plant which she had never noticed before. She

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Speaker 1: watered it, and it grew and grew, and she learned

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Speaker 1: to love it. One day, while she was looking at

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Speaker 1: the tiny plant, she remembered the promise and said, quietly

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Speaker 1: to herself, Can it be that this is the beautiful

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Speaker 1: flower the whole world is waiting for? I think it is,

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Speaker 1: for it has made me so happy? And it was

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Speaker 1: the flower. She knew the promise had come because it

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Speaker 1: had made her so happy. Everyone far and near came

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Speaker 1: to see it, and they begged pieces and seeds to plant.

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Speaker 1: And though the good woman gave of her plant, it

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Speaker 1: grew larger and larger, and she became happy and happier.

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Speaker 1: One day it blossomed wide and beautiful. The rich men

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Speaker 1: who had made great parks and gardens for the flower

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Speaker 1: would not believe the woman had received the real promised plant.

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Speaker 1: They shook their heads and laughed at it all, and

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Speaker 1: went on seeking after other seeds and plants. But the

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Speaker 1: people who believed, because they saw how happy it made

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Speaker 1: the woman to whom the flower came, brought rich gifts

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Speaker 1: to her, and begged for the seed. And they took

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Speaker 1: it home and planted it everywhere, that the whole world

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Speaker 1: might be filled with joy and peace. Good Night, sleep tight,