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I was at the Worthham Center watching

a theatrical play with about five of my friends.

We decided to go kind of at the last minute and our seats were way back in the back.

They weren't good seats at all, so there was five of us in bad seats with one pair of binoculars.

Yeah, that's really interesting. One pair of binoculars among five people.

Yeah, I can remember watching the play and I felt so disconnected from the story.

Because I really couldn't see the stage well enough.

And I don't know if you're over 40 in here today, but you know when you can't see,

you feel like you can't hear.

So I was waiting and waiting and waiting for those binoculars to make their way into my hands.

And when they finally did, I was so excited.

I pulled those binoculars up to my face and focused in on the stage and it was amazing.

I could see the expression on the actor's faces.

I could hear so well.

In fact, I felt like I was on the stage with them and part of the story.

You see, my perspective had totally changed because the distance between my seat and the stage was closed.

See, once which was far away became near to me.

Ephesians 2.13 says this,

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