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I Choose Today to Grow Little by Little

Do you remember the movie Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? There is a scene in the movie where spoiled child, Veruca Salt, wants a goose that lays golden eggs. She starts to sing about all the things she wants now, “Gooses, geeses I want my geese to lay gold eggs for easter At least a hundred a day And by the way, I want…” She describes all she wants: feasts, sweets, parties, balloons. She is not just satisfied with those things, so she proclaims she wants: the whole world, today, tomorrow. She didn’t care how she got them, she wanted them NOW! The scene ends with her standing on the machine that decides whether she is a good or bad egg. It decides she is bad and the scene ends with her going into the garbage dumpster, and Willie Wonka saying “that’s one bad egg.” This is a gross exaggeration of wanting what we want and wanting it now, but there is some truth in it, or is it just me? “The Lord your God will drive those nations out ahead of you little by little. You will not clear them away all at once, otherwise the wild animals

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