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IF I grow up  © 2002 by Harry Alex Smith. All rights reserved. The following play script may be copied and used for study purposes only. Any public reading or performance requires prior written permission from the author. 

IF I grow up...
[An adult, children's puppet play with music]

SYNOPSIS:

Smith, Harry Alex -- 1f, 1m, 1c.  Playing time approx. 25 minutes.

However deep the pit, God's love is deeper still.  Wounded people who have been broken by suffering and sickness ask for only one thing:  A heart that loves them, commits itself to them and is full of hope for them.   The four frontiers where every suffering person will do battle:  FEAR, HELPLESSNESS, MEANING, & HOPE. Our response to suffering depends largely on the outcome of our struggle in those frontiers.  Life will always include circumstances that incite fear:

---if not illness, financial hardship.

---if not poverty, rejection.

---if not loneliness, failure. 

In such a world, you have a choice: "Fear God or fear everything else."