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you Are not<br />

very smArt,<br />

Are you?<br />

On one occasion, I had arrived at the Manila<br />

airport after 30 hours of travel. Needless to<br />

say, I was exhausted. I was taken directly to a<br />

conference center, where I was to speak to a<br />

gathering of 300 workers with children in crisis<br />

throughout the Philippines. It was a special<br />

banquet and celebration <strong>that</strong> night, and I was<br />

trying to stay awake.<br />

After eating and during the preliminaries<br />

of the program, I was reviewing the notes of<br />

my message. A choir from a local orphanage<br />

had sung and was standing immediately behind<br />

me, waiting to sing again. One of the little boys,<br />

named Raffy, about six years old, was an orphan<br />

living at the Home of Joy and was standing quite<br />

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