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ONE STEP BACK, TWO STEPS FORWARD WITH CHUCK NORRIS!
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HOW TO GET YOUR BABY OFF THE MOUNTAIN TOP

ONE STEP BACK, TWO STEPS FORWARD
WITH CHUCK NORRIS!

This story demonstrates courage not cowardice.
This story demonstrates strength under control.

Chuck Norris avoided a battle and won the war.

“Not long ago, after a day of filming my television series,
I went alone to a small Texas bar for a cold beer. As I sat
in a corner booth, savoring my drink, a large man towered
over me and said with an edge to his voice that I was sitting in his booth.

I didn't like his tone or his implicit threat, but I said nothing and moved to another booth.

A few minutes later, though, the big fellow headed back in my direction.

Here it comes, I thought, a local tough guy out to make a name for himself by taking on Chuck Norris in a fight.

When he arrived at my new booth, he looked directly at me.

“You're Chuck Norris,” he said.

I nodded.

“You could have whipped my butt back there a few minutes ago,” he said.

“Why didn't you?”

“What would it have proved?” I asked.

He thought that over for a moment and then offered me his hand.

“No hard feelings?” he said.

“None,” I said, and shook his hand.

I had avoided a confrontation and made a friend. I won by losing.”

- From the Book: “The Secret Power Within”
by Actor and Martial Arts Expert Chuck Norris

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HOW TO GET YOUR BABY
OFF THE MOUNTAIN TOP

There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains. The mountain people invaded the lowlanders one day, and as part of their plundering of the people, they kidnapped a baby of one of the lowlander families and took the infant with them back up into the mountains.

The lowlanders didn't know how to climb the mountain. They didn't know any of the trails that the mountain people used, and they didn't know where to find the mountain people or how to track them in the steep terrain.

Even so, they sent out their best party of fighting men to climb the mountain and bring the baby home.

The men tried first one method of climbing and then another. They tried one trail and then another. After several days of effort, however, they had climbed only several hundred feet. Feeling hopeless and helpless, the lowlander men decided that the cause was lost, and they prepared to return to their village below.

As they were packing their gear for the descent, they saw the baby's mother walking toward them. They realized that she was coming down the mountain that they hadn't figured out how to climb.

And then they saw that she had the baby strapped to her back. How could that be?

One man greeted her and said, “We couldn't climb this mountain. How did you do this when we, the strongest and most able men in the village, couldn't do it?”

She shrugged her shoulders and said, “It wasn't your baby.”

- by, Jim Stovall
“You Don't Have to Be Blind to See”

Dr. Rob Gilbert with Joe DePalma
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