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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, as Landon mentioned, our students are headed out to camp, and when I was a student, I remember we lived in Texas, and we would go to a camp, up in Colorado, which the bus ride was about 20 hours long,

which have you ever been on a 20 hour bus ride,

trapped with, it smells like pringles and feet,

you have an urgent desire to get out and I remember for us as the sun was rising over

Colorado. We were finally arriving at our destination this camp up in the Rockies

and as soon as the bus door opened, me and a collection of kids

went racing out the door.

And like many Texans, did not understand distance in Colorado and so we saw what looked like a little

hill and we're like let's scampered at the top of that hill not realizing

that what we thought were shrubs were actually trees that was a mountain, and it was not close.

None of this was clear to us at the time.

So we just broke out in a sprint, running towards freedom to ascend the heights together

as a community.

And after several minutes of running, we realized,

ooh, this is a little farther than we thought.

And we didn't understand elevation either,

and we were more winded than we thought.

And so in a moment suddenly we found ourselves depleted

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