Scene 1
One day Jake was standing in the hallway at school, and he had an urge to spin. Yes, this was strange behavior, but Jake didn't care. He just began to spin around in place. He spun and spun and spun. Eventually, he got really dizzy—he stumbled around trying to get his balance, but fell down to the ground. Then he got up and started spinning again.

Just then, Joe and his friends walked by. Joe and Jake went to the same church and youth group, but they weren't friends or anything. In fact, Joe normally stayed away from Jake because of Jake's weird spinning thing! Joe said to his friends, "Hey, let's teach this weirdo a lesson!"

Joe and his friends surrounded Jake, who was still spinning around. In fact, Jake now had his hands up in the air while he spun around, and was making little "wheee" sounds like a kid on a ride. Joe reached out his hand and stopped Jake. Jake was a little disoriented and off-balance, and he fell down again, taking Joe with him. Joe's friends started laughing uncontrollably.

Joe scrambled back up to his feet and yelled, "Jake, you are so weird!"

Jake smiled, and said, "So what?" Then Jake stood to his feet also.

Joe and his friends started pushing Jake around. They pushed him across their little circle to each other. This went on and on, and eventually, Jake put his hands in the air and started making the "wheee" sound again with a big smile on his face! This made Joe even more frustrated. He threw his knee into Jake's stomach and did an elbow drop on Jake's shoulder, dropping him to the ground again. Then Joe and his friends walked away, leaving Jake on the ground.

Scene 2
That Sunday, Jake and Joe were both sitting in church—not together, of course. Joe was feeling awful about what he'd done to Jake. He just couldn't get it out of his mind. In fact, he'd made up his mind to apologize to Jake at some point—but he had no idea when and where he would do it. This was really bugging him and causing him to twitch and spaz almost uncontrollably.

The preacher was up in front, beginning his sermon. Joe was still twitching and spazzing. Jake was listening and smiling really big. The preacher was really getting into it—banging the pulpit and jumping around. Then he stopped and read the scripture for the morning, which said something like this:

Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.

The scripture hit Joe like a ton of bricks—so much so that he jerked his chair back and fell onto the floor! He knew exactly what he had to do. He stood up and walked straight over to Jake. The preacher was still jumping around and banging the pulpit.

Joe knelt on the ground next to Jake and said, "Bro, what I did to you was totally wrong. Can you forgive me?"

Jake smiled and said, "Okay." Then Joe and Jake gave each other a big hug. And then they both hugged the preacher. And then Joe's friends came running in yelling, "We want hugs too!" And the whole room broke out into a giant hug-fest!