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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart. Well, let me begin by bragging on my kids.

You know, Sunday, after the snow fell, we woke up Monday and sent the family out to shovel our sidewalk, you know, so I was out there, the kids were out there, and they don't get money for that. I know there's different debates on allowances. Room and board is what they get. And so you got to shovel the sidewalk.

So there's nothing to really brag about there. That's just the cost of living here.

What became impressive, though, was as they were shoveling, whatever was, 10 inches of snow off

our sidewalk, across the street from us, one of our neighbors is in their 90s. And we realized,

you know, she is not going to dig this out. And so I looked at my

oldest and said, we're going to have to dig up her sidewalk. And without complaining, she began to do

so. And we began to work on her sidewalk. And then Donna called to us because someone who lives

down the street, a retired school teacher, when the plow would come through, it sort of built one of those snow

barricades around her house. And so she's trapped. And so we realized, oh, we got to help her get out.

And so we began to do that. And so we did three different homes and then went to bed that day.

And the next day I woke up and went to work and found out my kids had helped the neighbor

next door and got paid to do so.

But while they were doing that, they told her, hey, we've got to go to the other side of us.

This neighbor needs help getting her car out. And this neighbor said, why? And she said,

would you help her? She can get a shovel and do it herself. And they said, because she's 80.

And they went and dug her car out. And then we found out later another neighbor, their driveway was

trapped. And so my kids dug their driveway out right in time for the medical ambulance to show up

to administer care to this older lady who desperately needed it in her home. And it was the most

fascinating thing to watch. I mean, by the end of it, I don't know if you're keeping score.

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