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Now here's this week's message.

How many of you have a difficult time slowing your mind? Raise your hands up. You had a difficult time slowing your mind.

Raise your hands up. You had a difficult time slowing your mind. Those of you online you

can type in the comments section if you want I have a hard time slowing my mind.

Some of you did not hear that question because your mind is somewhere else even right now.

And I can relate to that, to be real honest with you. My mind seems to race almost all of the time.

I can be in a conversation, I hate to say this out loud,

but I can be in a conversation with someone

with my eyes locked on their eyes,

apparently listening to every word they're saying

and not hearing a single word that they said.

I do that with Amy, but somehow I have a supernatural ability when she says were you listening even if I wasn't I can recall the last thing she said and I repeat it back to. It's a built-in system that God gave men for self-defense,

but it never works.

She sees right through it.

I repeat it back, and she says, don't do that.

I know you weren't listening.

In the daytime my mind is kind of all over the place at night I'll get in bed in my mind will

often race with all that I have to do. The Old Testament Book of

Ecclesiasti Solomon actually calls this anxious striving.

That might describe some of you anxious striving.

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