Discover the powerful coming-of-age story of a student environmentalist who shames his father’s legacy and abandons everyone who loves him, including his girlfriend, Michelle. On the run from his family, the authorities, and—most of all—God, Jeff finally confronts the deep hole in his life that only one thing can fill.
still with unhurrying Chase an
unperturbed Pace came on the following
feet and a voice above their beat
not shelters thee who Wilt not shelter
me
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come on
we’ve got um three pages to go it takes
this guy forever to say what’s on his
mind
he’s really hung up on words but it’s
it’s so beautiful now listen
but still within the little children’s
eyes seems something something that
replies
they at least are for me surely for me
it sounds like you’ve already read it so
so give it to me in one sentence
it’s about how Francis Thompson
tried to run away from God all his life
but he couldn’t
and that’s why he called him the Hound
of Heaven
I fled him down the nights and down the
days I fed him down the arches of the
years I fled him down the labyrinthine
ways of my own mind and in the midst of
Tears pretty heavy subject
I don’t guess you can expect him to say
it in a paragraph
hey uh sure you didn’t pick this
assignment will you shut up and listen
I hid from him and on a running laughter
up this day
hey uh let me greet you lip to lip
let me twine you with caresses
we have one more item of business
and I’m sure this won’t come as a
surprise to anyone that this year our
industrial Achievement award goes to
Warren Coe
[Applause]
well I
I had an idea something like this might
happen so
on campus this afternoon and have asked
some of the students what they felt
about Fame had well let’s find out let’s
talk to some more of them
net complex that we’ve been building out
there is not a pilot plant for power
distribution if you’ve been listening
what about you oh man that’s not my bag
I’m not interested I think it’s the
greatest thing to hit this town since
the electric toothpick well that’s a
curious analogy I don’t know would you
care to explain that
not really we achieved more in
satisfaction of our needs with fewer
man-hours of Labor because of power and
energy
than any other country in the world well
and wait you obviously have a strong
opinion no huh
but I have a lot of questions
to our community Atomic reactor
you know and just how many jobs will
automation take away from the people it
just don’t happen to have an engineering
degree and what are they going to do
with the hot waist how much more of our
Shoreline will have to be cordoned off
from public use whenever the power
demand is low and the heat generated
gets re-rooted back into the sea and we
believe that this massive installation
of ours
is truly a living symbol
of what man can accomplish
when his heart and his mind are
harnessed to the service of humanity
isn’t it true that Fame adds very
biggest customer isn’t going to be the
little housewife of their washing
machine it’s going to be the industrial
military complex
hello
I know Dottie but
we’ve always given him freedom
thank you gentlemen very much for this
very gratifying award thank you
thank you
I get it
hello
well I’m afraid I can’t make any comment
about that until I’ve seen the
transcript
well you can quote me no comment
all right
one I don’t think it looks like we’re
gonna make the papers
hi
what’s for dinner
meatloaf
with Ranka
he’s in the den
hi
it was your your soapbox huh
you had your little moment in the sun I
had mine is that all you got to say
congratulations
looks like I raised a kid with a whale
of a big mouth
this above all to thine own self be true
all right you want to play Shakespeare
dinner’s ready
how about King Lear act 1 scene four
how sharper than a Serpent’s tooth is an
ungrateful child when you two stop it
sit down
Dad look I wouldn’t have mind so much if
you had made your case on facts I mean
really if it bugged you that much you
should have talked to me okay how about
20 minutes next Thursday between micro
circuits
anyhow you have a way of bending
everything to your radioactive logic
maybe I’m more interested in truth
true
Warren please can it wait till after
dinner apparently it can’t
Jeff
you’re supposed to knock before coming
in here
I’m Not Gonna Knock in my own house
yes sir
oh
come hot Jeff you know how to do that
I’m your father next reason
look I was just one of a hundred faces
down there come on you think they picked
you out of the crowd because of your
good looks don’t be stupid you were a
setup they knew who you were and they
knew who your father was too
no you’ve been had Val you just fell
into it that’s all well aren’t you being
a little bit paranoid I’m simply trying
to explain to you rationally the
consequences look I said what I meant
and I meant what I said don’t I have
that right no you don’t apparently I
don’t no you don’t have that right not
to condemn my work no
if they mad put this house over your
head you know but just work everything
you have and where do you think it all
came from money money your money all
right what’s wrong with that right just
what have you contributed to the family
I’m getting out of your house
happy father trip you’re constantly
running is really the ultimate bummer of
the world would you mind transplating
that for me please what we’re really
talking about is is your image and how I
have to live up to it
I’m concerned with how you think how
about what I think
well I think that image is tarnished
Daddy and I really don’t think I can
live with that come on Jeff will you use
your hand look it’s my head
I don’t know what I am but I’m not one
of your machines you can’t program maybe
your specifications
I’m me and that’s all I want to be
Jeff wait a minute
about my credit card
you popped out of your minds
all yours
are you satisfied
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and he looks a million miles ahead and 2
000 years behind
and he travels on that will be his song
cause he is the traveling kind and
ignite the sky will blanket him and the
Earth will be his pillow
the sun will welcome him each day as he
rests
Willows
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and the things he owns are on his back
and his work shows in his hands and his
friends are Miles and Miles Ahead in a
far far distance
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and he traveled on another road the
longest of them are where he proved what
love was all about by suffering for
man’s fall and he showed in doing what
he meant when he laid his life down for
a friend the greatest thing a man could
give the hardest road to travel
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if you look to see his hands and brow
you will know he understands
cause he’s been the road you’re
traveling now is that
kind of traveling
man
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I was just trying to figure out when we
had our first running you know
the one that started the whole
Avalanche
you see him so much more than I do honey
does he talk to you
he used to
I was just trying to go back to that
first mistake
you know what mine was
I tried to explain my husband
to my son
was there really that much to explain
I’ll make some coffee
all right yeah
information retrieved are you saying
that cybernetics the machine substitutes
for the human brain when you pick up a
telephone and dial
that substitutes for what we used to
call the the hello girl the operator
but in computers
the information retrieval supplements
the human brain
you’re doing what the human brain does
are you doing it faster more accurately
and it remembers better
man improving on his own creation
can the computer think
in the present state of cybernetic
knowledge
a computer can only do what it’s told to
do doesn’t decision making require
thinking computers are able to make
decisions
but only based on the information given
to the computer by the computer program
I wish we had longer Mr Green
look if you all really want to see how
this plugs in why don’t we set up a 10
tour of the installation do we get
credit
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today
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hey look don’t worry about it he’s
around okay
see ya
foreign
yeah I blew it I’m sorry Dave did I miss
so much
50-minute summary of everything I know
see the morning papers no
what’s in it you want oh got a minute
hey not right now I’m doing English 102.
okay I’ll see you tonight
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should I ask for your order
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whenever we’re together things start
turning bright
because we understand each other
the sunshine that surrounds you turns
the dark to light
because we understand each other
look into my eyes see my smile feel my
touch
you understand you have
travel through my mind and leave the
impress Ed
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so many times I’ve tried to play it what
I’m wanting to be strong
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strong warning to leave me alone
and then you touch my mind with
everything you are
Suddenly It’s spring
Winter’s chill is gone
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you’re handing me a key
suddenly I’m free
because we understand
each other
I know at times
I wear you down
but
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feel the Sunshine
Shuffle rain
because we understand
each other
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okay Hey listen uh it’s nice Poetry Days
years ways tears but rhyme doesn’t get
it for me what about the meaning
uh well something’s chasing him uh
there’s something something uh of his
mind
paranoia yeah
the Hound of Heaven Is God like a poem
should be not mean
but you have to bring something to a
poem if all you’re doing is looking at
the words hey hold on a sec I hear you
saying I can’t appreciate this thing
because I’m not into god well I’m not a
murderer and I read Crime and Punishment
all right I think it’s fair
that we each interpret poetry from our
own frame of reference
Michelle
you believe the Hound of Heaven is God
can you support that from the work
itself
alas thou knowest not how little worthy
of any love thou art
whom will thou find to love ignoble thee
save me save only me
we’re Unworthy of God’s love and yet he
loves us
you lose me on the v’s and downs
I’m going to finish it for us
foreign
I didn’t get that far
Michelle
will you end it for us please
our fondest blindest weakest
I am he whom thou seekest thou dravest
love from thee who Davis me you got a
date
all right
yeah hey guitars amp skis yeah well I
need the bread okay see you later thanks
but you brought him up to be a
self-reliant independent human being the
moment he cuts loose David
so we shot his mouth off it has nothing
to do with it
well the fact that he was arrested two
times was speedy three times solely
meals
they’re even making a fool out of
himself on the tube
so what is eating you
how do you get through to someone who
opposes everything you stand for
and possibly you why is that bending the
truth
hey you’re the one that’s always selling
Faith how about summon me
you know I’ll type my landlady guess
yeah maybe she likes Pizza
hey uh what’s the matter
you really don’t want me to come home
with you
trouble is I do
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ah yes and here we have Mrs ungerdanger
our typical the beautiful American
housewife and mother who doesn’t know
she’s on candid commercial
and now for an honest opinion of our
Prada bye they know me on candy
commercial where’s the camera right here
little lady I just watch these and grab
his new poop super strength detergent
clean ah yes well uh thank you Mrs
hunger no matter if I’ve ever much
cleaner before I wash this wow yeah so
thank you I do believe this is the
dirtiest
look like someone’s left in the truck
all night long
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you know we could really make it here in
just the two of us
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oh
yeah
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I almost forgot the history notes
yeah it’s cool
got that seminar thing in the morning at
your dad’s place
you pick me up
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don’t count on it
what’s that supposed to mean
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what do you think you’re doing just give
me a ticket yeah but this is a build up
zone now you had to be going at least
60. skip the lecture please
okay let’s have it
Sharon I’m going to be about five
minutes late
yeah
are we
we’re gonna miss you at the golf course
or you could hit that ball a ton
listen Angie I wonder if you could do me
a favor
Jeff and I had a kind of a
problem last night and he
he’s left the house I just wonder if you
could kind of keep an eye out for him
you know and nothing officially
and I got three on my own what do you
think I got the gray hair
greens class they’re on the way down
Master Control
you’re supposed to wear that yeah right
[Applause]
everyone fell in around the window here
all right now you realize that
everything you have seen is run from
right here in master control that
includes the reactor the solidization
intake fresh water output temperature
maintenance steam conversion turbine
speed power start and stop
equipment
excuse me
Security’s pretty tight huh well in the
event of an emergency security can
electronically come on in security can
electronically seal off this entire
plant then we need one of these
authorized key cards to release the
lockhements we use them at all times
here in Massachusetts okay everybody
come on in it may be a little tight but
moment
our research and development program has
put us ahead of most other countries in
the programming and control of atomic
energy
and actually the biggest loads in the
history of atomic reactive power is
stored right here program for all
conceivable combinations of demand and
Circumstance
x million information bits
it all boils down to one rail of tape
controlling the whole thing
configuring out the city payroll at the
same time
in fact every conceivable mechanical and
electrical function is handled from this
room
the data that has been designed into
these machines
enable us to control power plants
automatically cutting in appropriate
substations and cutting out others
feeding power where it’s needed
now the number of man hours that have
been invested in this project
are comparable
to all the time devoted to our space
program
because if somebody pushes the wrong
button it screws up the tape and doom
doom
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thank you
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thank you
foreign
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let me tell you Michelle Michelle
could I see you for a moment
I’m open to just about anything
I mean
you are so much closer to him than we
are
a time there
I thought you were going to get engaged
if that isn’t too old-fashioned
then when you start seeing each other so
much
Jeff said the competition was too tough
I guess he meant Jesus
you know
it’s really strange because I have so
much more love to give him now and he’s
miles away and he can’t see it does he
talk to you about us
about his family sometimes
Jeff took most of those
is he interested in religion
oh that was a concert he plays sometimes
Sunday afternoons we usually have a
thing going at the park
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do I love you I love you I love you I
love you
brother and sister Mrs and Mr I love you
I love you she made me feel it now I
can’t conceal it I love you or I love
you
she came into the world to show to show
the way
set us all free and when he died
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I love you
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excuse me can you tell me where it’s
happening yeah it’s up on the hill here
take a couple of these with you it’s a
long walk to keep you busy
oh it’s not our thing really thing well
it’s not exactly a thing you know it
could be your whole life
well that works for you fine but I just
don’t go along with it would you mind
telling me what you do believe in
in my book
I just don’t believe in miracles
I believe in what works
would you believe in how Christ worked
for me
see I had three felony wraps for
possession
I was in and out of every kind of
do-it-yourself thing to kick the habit
one point I was so far down I felt like
dying
then somebody touched me and
told me I could change my whole life
right around if I just let Jesus help me
Jesus is real brother praise God
thank you
must be the place
we’re singing about love
what is This Love
it’s love we sing about
love is a pretty general term today
it
could mean anything from something
someone might say to someone when they
wanted to go to bed with them to a
to an ecstatic spiritual feeling
fulfillment
deep inside
I don’t think he’s here friend but real
love is taught by the Bible
is giving
the Bible says in Luke 10 when I was a
legal expert asked Jesus about God’s
command to Love Thy Neighbor
Jesus replied with this story
it seems there was this man traveling
from Jericho to Jerusalem that could
have been for me
Los Angeles to San Francisco for that
matter
and he fell among some thieves and they
beat him up
took his money took his clothes and
pushed him off to the side of the road
and just generally ripped him off
this priest came along
he was a very holy individual
he looked at the man laying at the side
of the road and decided that he didn’t
want to get involved so he passed him by
then an assistant or somebody from the
temple came along and
he looked at the guy laying there and
rushed right by because he didn’t have
the time to be involved
that seems to me to be where most of us
are
that seems to be the Human Condition we
we need this help we reach out for this
help but nobody hears us because
everybody’s just too busy
but that’s not the end of the story
another man came down the road he was
what the Bible called a despise
Samaritan we would probably call him the
last man on the face of the Earth to
help anybody because nobody ever helped
him
the Samaritans had their own little
ghetto you know
he knew all about pain so he walked over
to the man at the side of the road
bandaged him up and took care of him
maybe you’ve been way laid by the side
of life’s eyewear maybe you know someone
who has
Jesus loves you you know
he wants to help you
and he proved his love for you by dying
on the cross
for you
open up
and accept that love he has to offer
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ing us
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always
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thank you
foreign
I’ve been home since two o’clock
well I went to a meeting with Dave
some of Michelle’s friends were having
I thought Jeff might be there but he
wasn’t
then we just sat and talked and the time
just got away four hours
well it’s not exactly normal for you to
be home on Sunday afternoons
maybe you better start mimeographing
your schedule
how often you have these little chats
Dave’s a good listener
well the next time she wants to cry on
your shoulder why don’t you try taking
her to lunch
now wait a minute
she asked me to take her there
probably because you’d have taken out
your slide rule and proven there wasn’t
any God
Come On Dave maybe it’s just a fad it
was a rock last year piece last week pot
yesterday Jesus today and who knows what
tomorrow yes but what if there is
something more
what if those kids really do have
something
and the scientist I’m open open
you think all this was prayed into
existence it took intelligence and hard
work yours and mine
a lot of other people before us which
only proves what God could have done if
he had a Federal grant that’s funny
that’s really funny
thank you
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foreign
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hahaha
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it’s a bad time woman
okay Tarzan
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I miss you in the outside world
oh you and who else
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your mom came to see me
what’s she bothering you for
she thought I knew where you were
she’s worried
what’s he supposed to do forget your
name
come on I’ll show you count your summer
house
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it looks like a birthday cake
is there anybody around no just a weird
old lady on a bike that chases
butterflies
you look pretty strung out
yeah well
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been trying to put it all together
everything
it’s been up for review
probably
this is the time to split for good
[Music]
nothing’s going to change
no matter what I do it’s never going to
earn me a gold star on his performance
chart
[Music]
does your dad always have to set the
standards
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look if you mentioned that Jesus stuff
I’ll throw up
you mentioned him yeah but it’s written
all over your face look I’m tired of
always feeling like you’re judging me
behind that Christian smile of yours
because I haven’t seen the light
Jeff
couldn’t be more wrong
I love you
save your prayers you’re being pretty
weird you’re pretty weird yourself
mother Mary reading your Bible all the
time like some
straight and proper
sorry if I turn you off
yeah well I liked you better the old way
not the old way
it never will be again
hey come on
I told you I’m going through a lot of
changes well how do you think I feel
when the person I love most can’t
understand the most important thing in
my life we had a beautiful thing going I
had
well that’s slipped out I
yeah well maybe it’s better left past
tense it was just a big hole in you and
every time you can’t fill it you explode
against someone
hello
where is he
yeah
okay look I appreciate it thanks
all right
all right
you know you’re kind of a tough guy
you’re fired me how you doing
well just
keep them clean
that’s what I see
a Mr ecology this is uh
phosphate you know let’s have pollutes
thank you
all right so look you you made your
point now come on come on home with me
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thank you
come on I got some food for you come on
Kitty
hey kitties Hello Kitties come on little
kids
come on babies
hello dear hello you’re gonna get out
all by yourself oh you little baby yeah
come on I got your food for you I got a
lot of good stuff for you oh come on
come on
where are all the other little kids
have a little kitty cats oh they’re up
in the ceiling son
foreign
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thank you
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can’t be upstairs
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thank you
here
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foreign
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that you love him
use your heart for a change instead of
that super rational brain what do you
recommend the front lobotomy or
something
yes sir I would like to uh we would come
to see our son the name please
Jeffrey call all right oh Angie Mr Miss
Cole
officer Sardinia be with you
Warren friend
well they got him on a misdemeanor
breaking and entering
this is in the charge no no that’ll all
come later I mean restitution should
only run in the neighborhood of 50 bucks
okay
thanks
check you later Harvey
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you know they really take lousy pictures
in there but I did a great job on the
prints
thanks
we’re not interested in punishing you
for some exotic crime I’ll pay back that
fifty dollars
don’t worry
yeah I guess you’re kind of tired from
your jail experiencer
how about a fresh start in the morning
I’m not afraid to talk about it really
I just want you to know that I’m sorry I
put you in all this trouble
forget it
you’re better get some sleep
I must really put you through the ringer
well it was worth it at least you knew
you were wrong son
about what
well your emotional accusations on
television I suppose where it started
I’m sure you got something out of Dave’s
lecture at least about our safety
factors
you must keep pretty heavy surveillance
down there daddy
look I just happened to kick
somehow the super rational brain of mine
can’t penetrate that particular tone of
voice I didn’t say I was wrong I said I
was sorry your boobs are behaving like
spoiled bread stay out of this
what am I
some kind of a gadget you can turn on
and off when you want dinner look I told
you to leave us alone why don’t you
leave her alone look you’ve been doing
this big father number on me for the
last couple of years well I can take it
just leave her alone wait a minute pal
well you just wait a minute you can talk
to my probation officer
I’ll sleep in the van what is somebody
in this house going to love somebody
is that so difficult Warren
new upstairs
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anything
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foreign
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foreign
I really tried
if it was not exactly noticeable
you win
that’s what counts doesn’t it
you just have to win
you’re playing some kind of
computerized chess game
it’s fixed
so that you always come out on top
you know I love you
it’s the job friend
thank you
I know we are all drifting
away from each other
and as soon as we pass the critical
stage at the plant I promise what about
the critical stage here
it’s the
time thing
foreign
things keep building up and driving us
further and further apart
I’ll make it right I promise I I just
need a little more time
Jeff
y
thank you
security we’ve got some Monkey Business
at the fountain can you pick up anything
we’ll get right on it
and maybe you better call Warren Cole
Mr Cole I’m sorry to disturb you but we
have a possible entry at the plan we are
alerting all units to a possible illegal
entry and the South
scan bypass area
there he is unit 4 checkout bypass area
for illegal entry
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thank you
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hey Bob look at this
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foreign
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by the time I get there I’ll be laughing
off some heads
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thank you
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all units report to electrical relay
immediately possible sabotage
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foreign
thank you
foreign
why do you insist on embarrassing me
like this
oh how’s this for a headline
father trapped son and sabotage plot
that make a great PR man you might even
make the tube again why do you always
have to say something like that that
doesn’t relate to anything
all I see is hate I’m you for me
I don’t know maybe I did something that
nature no diversionary tactics okay
I came here to follow up your toy oh
Jeff come on this toy has so many
automatic systems built in you could
ever be any more than an annoyance
oh all this energy
why can’t you see that every dream I
ever had will all come back to you
that’s it
they’ve always been yours
look you gave up on me when I blew
algebra
I don’t know
I try I
everything he ever asked for I I gave
you
I don’t know anymore
I’m afraid
turbine the generator just recorded
electrical failure they’re losing power
and we’re close to a critical mode I
wanna
I Just Wanna Be Free of you
your dreams
death
we’re fluctuating between 60 and 100.
these limits aren’t going to hold
alert the local substation they’re
switching the backup
coming to kill a right
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okay
um
okay I’m going to reactivate a tell them
to stand by for a surge
we’ll be standing by for a surge
on
good we’re holding steady
there might be a slight rise in the
building for five or ten seconds Dave do
you want to record this for retreat
some of the conversion is holding
complete
thank you
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hey
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left hey thanks a lot
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never fails every time I hear a guard
just start walking
where are you heading just traveling you
oh no place in particular just away
that’s cool
just splitting her yeah yeah
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Hey listen you hungry
no not not really
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hey man it’s ripoff time you take what
you can get what do you have to live for
a week and just talk biscuits of course
you don’t get any Blue Chips tips
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hey thanks sure
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first time on the road
yeah just about
I’ve been moving around about three
years
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been all over the stage
Canada
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Alaska
Europe twice
Africa
Africa
yeah every single country three feet off
the ground you gotta go to Morocco man
talk about brass
over there it’s Keith Ash anything you
want it’s like buying Burger
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thank you
Jesus Freaks
always good for a place to crash
always there with the goodies
really yeah
they get off on Jesus look at this grass
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tying with them every chance you get
magic words or praise the Lord pass the
mashed potatoes
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thank you
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I think we got a flat
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to kill it
yeah the Jack and the Tire Tool are in
the front seat okay
thank you
I got a ride I got a ride
oh
see you man take care huh yeah
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hi honey come on what’s happened is it
Jeff oh no what have you heard from him
no
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that’s what I kind of hang around home
today you know break the pattern
you realize we haven’t had a vacation in
five years
we’re both a little too old for an
identity crisis but
we could consider a holiday
yeah uh Europe or South America maybe
wherever you want to go
only you could come up with something
like this
like what we have no idea where Jeff is
and you have us off on some vacation
it’s incredible one really incredible
friend
please
friend
I always believe that growth was the
most important factor in life to
to achieve as much
actualization of one’s potential was
possible
and somehow Ohio
I overachieved at least
with Jeff and
oh
what I’m trying to say is I don’t want
to lose you
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is it possible to go back friend
and the silences
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fill her up you got any money
uh better make it three bucks
got a pot of coffee on inside
hey thanks
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hey thanks a lot man yeah not bad are
you going into the city well if it’s up
ahead I guess I am we really prayed
you’d stop
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how’s your day been going all right just
moving along I wish you didn’t plan on
being stranded back there we’re trying
to make it to the sports arena Billy
Graham’s there
it’s a Lord’s timing he knows best well
maybe you’re not missing very much
Graham probably repeats himself a lot
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I don’t know I just can’t believe in a
God that would allow
or
Napalm and starving kids for instance
when we turn our backs his son man you
can see the results you mean people
decided to choose God they’ll
automatically change overnight and
everybody will live happily ever after
well you know God wants to change our
hearts but he won’t back you into a
corner with no way out because that’s
not love
the part of you that will live on
forever
thanks Jeff you’re welcome
well you better hurry up you understand
why don’t you come on in with us uh no
thanks why’d you go so far to your way
to get us here where is the future I
used to know a girl that’d be turned on
by Graham I guess it was for her and
that’s fine
the lord loves you Jeff
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pailed upon my wall
my eyes dimly see the pattern of my life
I’m the puzzle that is me
from the moment of my birth to the
instant of my death there are patterns I
must follow just as I must breathe each
breath
like a rat in a maze the path before me
lies and the pattern never Alters until
the rap dies
is that the way your life seems just a
circle
just a maze no purpose and no meaning
life makes no sense
did you know that you can really live
any way you want to live
and there’s nothing that God can do
about it
you’re not a puppet on a string
you’re not a mechanical toy that God
winds up and turns you loose and you do
what you’re supposed to do
you’re made in the image of God you’re
made in the moral image of God you can
choose
you can choose the kind of life you’re
going to leave
if you want to lead a life totally away
from God
pleasing your own flesh
your own desires
under the control of your own will
without any restraints without any
lordship of Jesus Christ go ahead and do
it
now you cannot Escape Jesus you can try
but you can’t do it
if Jesus claimed to be God knowing that
he was not
then of course he’s a liar
if Jesus thought he was God and didn’t
know the difference he was a maniac
but if Jesus Christ is who he claims to
be
God In the Flesh
then nothing else counts except to know
him
with all of our scientific and
technological achievement with all of
our intellectualism we cannot Escape
Jesus
everybody has to decide about Jesus
who is it
what was he
what demands does he have on my life
today
God said I’ll become a man
and young people I want to tell you
that’s who Jesus Christ is
God
God and God in the form of Jesus Christ
born of a virgin
walked Among Us
and he showed us what God is like and if
I want to know what God is like I take a
long look at Jesus
I watch him as he makes the blind man to
see and the dumb man to talk and the
dead man derives
but that wasn’t why it came he didn’t
come just to live among us he didn’t
come just to teach us a new way of life
Jesus Christ came for another purpose
he came to die on the cross
you see the Cross of Christ where he
died for our sins that was a judgment
Jesus said to this end was I born he was
not accidentally put to death
and he said my God why is Thou forsaken
me at that moment in some mysterious way
God was judging his son instead of us
he didn’t just give him to die
he gave him to sin
he became sin for us
the Bible says all have sinned what does
sin mean sin means that you’ve broken
the law of God sin means that you’ve
come short of God’s holy requirement
for eternal life all of us are sinners
all of us have missed the marks
honey I was just going through my back I
can’t find my nine hours
Jeff’s room
he used them last summer
to take away this cause
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you know the god of the Bible is not
some cold impersonal formula or
something
yeah and Jesus said I’ve come to bring
life and life abundantly
Jesus said you cannot serve God and
Mammon he said a man’s life consisted
not in the abundance of the things that
he possesses
riches
make people
solitary
lonely and often afraid
if you make money your God
it leaves you empty
George Bernard Shaw said there are two
tragedies in life
one is not to get your heart’s desire
and the other
is to get it
you think if you had a lot of money
you’d be happy
some of you have already got a lot and
you’re not happy
two tragedies you didn’t get it and you
did get it you see without God
life loses its zest and its purpose and
its meaning you were made for God and
without God you can never find Total
fulfillment and total satisfaction how
many people are watching me that are
having problems in your home he can give
you a new home turn it over to him take
all the selfishness out and put Christ
first and see what happens what is the
cure
there is a Christian killed
that cures Christ
to go to our knees
if you wait until you can understand it
all or accept it all scientifically
you’ll never come Jesus said
except you become as a little child and
be converted you cannot enter the
Kingdom of Heaven what does converted
mean converted just means change
you’re going in One Direction in your
life and you change and start a new
Direction and your new direction is
taught god with Christ in your heart
that’s conversion conversion is the work
of God all you have to do is be willing
and he’ll do it
I’m going to ask you to submit and
surrender your life and your heart to
him and start life all over again
with his love and his power to help you
what do you have to do
you have to be willing to give up your
sin and confess that you failed and
sinned against God I’m going to ask you
by faith to come to his cross where he
shed his blood for you
and let him wash you clean of your past
and change your life and make you a new
person I’m asking you to get up out of
your seat and come and stand right here
in front of this platform and say I want
Christ I choose Christ as my Lord and my
master and my savior there’s a young man
there’s a young woman there’s a father
there’s a mother here tonight but Christ
is speaking to
and you’re going to have to
fake and you’re going to
and you can’t face any of them really
without Christ
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on my way to where have I been
on my way
to what am I do
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something around me I don’t know
coming on
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telling me to try and look his way but I
don’t know
I don’t know
catch me Catch Me If You Can
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you help me slow down and find out who I
am
the pieces
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catch me
running away
to where’s all the sunshine
on my way
to open some door
on my way to one where and more
something around me
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telling me to try and look his way
things I love
catch me catch me if you can
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help me slow down and find out who I am
you have to pick up the pieces
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catch me or catch me
catch me if you can
catch me
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okay
do you have any more of that Christian
love left for a guy with an empty tank
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it seems like
such a cop-out to just give in to him
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he hadn’t left anything for me to do
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I have to believe
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yeah yeah well if he’s God he knows I
don’t understand at all
he’s a Hound of Heaven he’ll know when
you’ve stopped running
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hello
well hi
thanks
Warren
Warren
Warren
Michelle just called she said we should
come to the park well what far
she says it’s Jeff’s there
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I’d always been strong and independent
until my family started breaking up for
the second time and I realized how weak
I really was and how I needed somebody
who was strong and whose love was
constant I had some friends who told me
about Jesus Christ and I really knew
that I needed him and that he really
wanted me I just couldn’t help but
respond to his unending love I felt like
I was lost you know like 25 years like I
used heroin for seven years
like I’ve been in the penitentiary like
I felt like I never belonged all my life
like I felt like something was always
missing inside of me
and now like I feel whole I Feel
Complete you know through Jesus Christ
and coming out of a drug culture I found
one of the biggest Hang-Ups for me was
that I was never willing to admit that I
was wrong or that I could possibly be
sinful or something
and I found that when I accepted Christ
at the age of 18 all I had to do was
just be myself and that’s the kind of
relationship I found that God wanted
with me
you know I used to really resent
Christians with their smiley faces and
their white Bibles and they’d come up to
me and they’d tell me what a wonderful
personal relationship they had with
Jesus Christ
until one day I was in a Volkswagen
repair shop and uh and this guy came up
to me and sat down next to me with a
Bible and so I thought as a game I’d ask
him some of the usual questions about
God and Jesus Christ and things and
and right there he explained to me why I
needed Jesus Christ as my personal
savior
and you know driving home right after
that in my in my repaired Volkswagen I
could tell that I was I was a new person
and Jesus was really in my life I
remember going to church every Sunday in
my life and I come away from my deal on
Sunday and think I’d done my bit for the
week but I was missing the whole point
of what church is about
but then one day a guy on a football
field really told me that Christianity
is a personal relationship with Christ
and that God my God wanted to be a seven
day a week God not just a Sunday God
and when I found when I invited Jesus
into my life that I had a God that was
with me all the time there was a girl in
my class who started talking to me about
Christ and I couldn’t believe it because
she really seemed to be a semi
intellectual person and I I couldn’t
bring the two together and one by one
all my intellectual arguments started
breaking down
the crisis in my life
and you know
it’s not hard to be alone now
so not hard to
be alone at night
because I know that God is really there
after a while I just um
stopped running I guess
well I guess the chase is over
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I’ve been doing a lot of searching
but I’ve decided to trust
Jesus
I
I need
for him to give me
well for one thing love
I don’t really know what’s going to
happen from here on
but I do know that I need Jesus
I’m figuring he can show me the way
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oh
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come on
have you sensed the spirit of God the
great hound of Heaven tugging at your
heart
the Bible says we can never find God
through our own knowledge
that we have to discover him like a
child
reaching out in simple trust to his son
Jesus Christ
only then
after that first step of faith will he
reveal himself and in your heart
will know
what’s keeping you from doing that right
now your pride
your uncertainty
perhaps Christians that have failed you
your own dreams your own bank account
your own ambitions
if Jesus is who he claimed to be
there is nothing more important in the
world
than getting to know him
it’s my prayer
that this moment you will come to Christ
God bless you
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