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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, my three kids headed back to school this week which was kind of a bizarre thing

We got them all masked up suited up ready to go but as we got them ready to go

attempt to be back in a classroom.

It struck Donna and I, our children,

for the last six months, half a year,

have really just been around us,

which has been pretty sweet,

because it's been a lot of time.

We've taken walks every day and sat on the couch and read an enormous amount of books.

They've had so much time with us as their parents to be loved by us, cared by us, led by us,

and then for us to teach them how to treat each other as siblings.

But now as we were preparing to send them out into the world, it struck us, y'all haven't been

out in society, like do you even know how to talk to strangers anymore?

Like have you become strange? We realized we kind of had to reboot them. Here's how the

stewards operate in society because we're not sure you know any. I remember when Donna was pregnant with our firstborn Hannah a movie came out

called Hannah and we thought let's watch it and the first half of the movie was

his dad with his daughter and he took her far away from society

to protect her from the craziness.

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