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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, when I was in elementary school, we would play a game in PE called Octopus.

And the way the game worked was they would take all of us kids and line us up on one wall of the gym,

and when the coach blew the whistle, we had to run across the gym to the

other wall not a particularly complex game but the coach would always designate one kid as it.

And when it tagged you, you didn't leave the game.

You had to sit down wherever it was that you were tagged.

And you became a participant in this great drama.

You were part of its squad.

You didn't have the mobility it had, but as you sat there you could tag other kids and they would have to sit as well.

And so with each pass across the gym, this web of its evil intrigue would increase across the floor.

And so I remember the first round of this one particular day

I crossed the floor and crossed it again and was having a pretty good game.

Made it several times through this web of evil and yet right at the end of the game I got tagged.

It's very frustrating, didn't win and so the next round came across and I'll be

honest with you second round I got tagged very early. I wasn't

focused, hadn't cleared my mechanism to focus, too much emotional energy in the

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