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Simon,
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you spend more time sitting
alone in a corner downstairs...
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than you do
with the other children.
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You, uh, frighten them
with your stories...
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- about being an-an instrument of God.
- They're not stories.
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And you interrupt my sermons
and you refuse to apologize.
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I'm out of ideas, Simon.
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I can't speak
to your parents because,
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well, they don't
attend church.
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And I-I can't speak
to Rebecca because...
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because, uh...
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um...
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Simon, what I'm trying
to say is that...
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all of us around here...
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Well, we need a break from you.
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So, once this all simmers down,
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and Marjorie Albright's father
accepts your apology,
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we'll talk about
you coming back.
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- What about the retreat?
- Joe will go alone.
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And it's about time
I had a talk with him too.
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Simon, I'm sorry.
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but, as the Bible says,
"There is severe discipline...
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for him who forsakes the Way."
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"To impose a fine
on a righteous man is not good.
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To flog a noble man
is wrong."
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Proverb 17, Verse 26. That's, uh,
very good, Simon.
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But perhaps you know this one
as well: "Folly is bound up
in the heart of a child,
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but the rod of discipline
drives it far from him."
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- "Good sense makes a man slow to anger,
- Simon.
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- and it is glory
to overlook the offense."
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Simon... what do you
want me to do? Hmm?
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What do you want me to say?
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I want to know that
there's a reason for things.
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I used to be certain,
but now I'm not so sure.
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I want you to tell me
that God has a plan for me.
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A plan for all of us.