UFO: The Encounter Page #6

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Someone who's taking more from society than what he's giving

So that's what motivates you?

Giving?

No, but when I succeed, other people do too

When I set the quarterback, I'll help my whole team

Look at my restaurants

Each one of them employs 25 to 40 people

that doesn't include my vendors

doesn't include corporates

doesn't include my suppliers

Everyone of those families are doing better than mine did

When I was growing up.

Funny when it always comes back

to your dad's fruit stand, Nick.

Did you not feel loved as a child?

Of course I felt loved

Did you feel secured?

I felt secured

Then why do you have so much distain for your youth, Nick?

Why were you so embarrassed?

I wasn't embarrassed.

Nick, Nick, I'm gonna call you on that one

As a child, you were happy

You spent all your summers working with your father

at the fruit stand, listening to his stories

marveling and the way people came just to talk to him

Everybody liked your father

You have to admit you got your work ethic from him, Nick

I got a lot of things from him

But not what he wanted you to have the most

When you were a child, everybody was pretty much the same

Working class, lower middle class

Nobody was rich or unduly privileged

But when you got into high school

Suddenly you were with the sons of doctors and lawyers

and business man, people that the rest of the world

thought were very successful

It all comes down at the summer before your sophomore year

You'll work in the food stand like you always did

Cliff, Bobby came, they saw you in your white apron

and they thought that was the funniest thing in the world

And your dad's accent

You used to have an accent, Nick.

You got rid of it didn't you?

You think you're so smart

But you had football

Coach didn't care if you were rich or poor

all he cares about is your performance on the field

and you excelled

Sports was your ticket

And suddenly you were no longer little Nicky Cruchetti

in the white apron, the son of the fruit vendor

You're Crusher Cruchetti.

God helped the man who would laugh at you

You really wanna mess with me?

Relax, Nick

Have a piece of pie

It's your grandmother's recipe

I give you this,

she was a great cook

That's because she sprinkled the generous helping of love

on everything, didn't she, Nick?

I don't remember her

Memory is a funny thing Nick

It can remain perfectly hidden for years even decades

and then come flooding back because of a picture

or hearing a song, smelling a scent or even a taste

Grandma, is my pie ready?

Now what do we say?

Thank you, God?

Would you like to pray?

Okay, grandma.

My boy.

Dear Jesus, thank you for this food

Thank you Lord, for my family, thank you for my grandma

In Jesus name, Amen.

She never graduated from high school

She was never rich

She never even learned to drive a car

But your grandmother Nick, is a very special lady.

You remember her, don't you?

Your grandmother had true faith in my ability to intervene

and fulfill my promises

And I promised her that I would move heaven and earth

to reach you.

So here I am, Nick.

You put this ancient memory in my head, and you expect me

to throw away the life that I built for myself

What kind of weak will man do you think I am?

The kind of man that hasn't opened himself up

to unconditional love, since he was a child

You put up a wall

You turned your back on the old fashioned blue-collar values

Blast it off to your future

But with Sadie, ah, there was never a wall

between you and Sadie.

She died before you could shut down completely

So there's still just a fragment, Nick, of unconditional love that remains

in your heart.

Nick, when is the last time that you told your parents

that you love them?

I took care of them

I bought them a house

I bought them cars

This is ridiculous

I'm not gonna sit here and let you make me feel guilty

for something that I didn't do

Nick, some people feel guilty for things that they did

and others feel guilty for what they didn't do

The question is, what are you gonna do about it?

I don't need to do anything about it.

Oh yes you do, Nick.

This is your time.

All the seemingly random moments and incidents of your life

they've all come together to bring you here and now to this point

of making a decision for your life for all eternity

Kayla stepped out of dead and into life

I want you to join her

I want you to join your mom and dad

I want you to join Sadie

Sadie awaits you in heaven.

Nick, what are you afraid of?

You think I'm gonna ask you to give all your money

away to the poor and become a missionary in Africa?

Or are you more afraid that I'm gonna ask you to proclaim My Name

to your friends and colleagues

Is that what it is, Nick?

You're afraid your business partners

and your former team mates would laugh at you because of this?

They'll say you're weak?

They'll say you've lost your energy and gone soft

Is that it, Nick?

You think I care what they think?

You think I care what anybody thinks?

I'm my own man

You think you're a self-made man

But you're not

I made you, Nick.

You existed in my heart before the creation of the world

I have plans for your life

Think of what you're gonna accomplish with me in your corner

Nick, please, open your heart.

I'm doing just fine on my own

Well well well..

You are still in business

After all these years

nobody been interested in what you're selling

I don't sell anything

Oh that's right

You give it all away

Any takers?

Not me.

He couldn't give me a bite

That's a smart man

I've come very good news

The road is finally clear and you're all free to leave

Well, halleluyah

That's the best news I've heard all day

It isn't true

The road isn't clear

Like you would know?

This man's been out there

He obviously knows

Does he?

Apparently I do

You coming?

Don't, Nick.

Nick, I don't think you should go.

Can I get an escort?

Absolutely, just follow me.

It's you and me baby

That's one for me

Four set free

.

Don't worry, Jesus.

We'll meet again.

That was his last chance.

If there's a down side of being God

is knowing

I've reached out to him with everything I am but I know

I just know.

I am the good shepherd

The good shepherd would lay down his life for the sheep

Thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy

I am the good shepherd

And I know my own

and my own know me

My sheep hear my voice and I know them

And they follow me

No one shall snatch them from my hand

Melissa?

Yes?

Would you do me a favour?

Drive Kayla back to Los Angeles

Bring her child protection services for me

Yes, of course

Kayla, you're gonna have some hard times ahead of you

and you have some doubts

This would ultimately be the first step towards saving your family

Really?

Yeah

And you have such a wonderful life ahead of you

Will I ever see you again?

Ya, ya but not like this.

I mean not for a long while anyway

Can I talk to you?

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