Author: Jeff Hampton

For Wilshire Baptist Church

We often marvel at the amazing designs of nature — the intricate geometry of snowflakes and flowers, for example — and sometimes it feels that way about life in general. Events and people can spin around us in circles that connect and overlap, drawing us together in unexpected ways.

I thought about this recently after one of LeAnn’s monthly family Zoom visits with her cousins and her mother, who is the last living of four sisters. I married into the family, of course, and I sit in as often as I can because they’re the type of family that treats me as family and invites me to share parts of my story, which has connections to theirs.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

So, what’s your passion? What do you pursue? To what extremes will you go to pursue it?

One of ours is college football, and for that reason we were on the road Saturday going to Waco for another ballgame. We left early and that was good because we didn’t get very far before we hit a wall of traffic on I-635 in Mesquite. More impatient than worried about being late, we used a driving app to find the quickest route around the clog.

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The passing of actor-director Robert Redford this week touched me in an unexpected way. Redford starred in many memorable films, but the one I’ve thought of most this week is “All the President’s Men.” The film came out in 1976 when I was in high school, but I saw it again a few years later as I was finishing my degree in journalism.

The film tells how Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, reporters at The Washington Post, uncovered details of a burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. carried out by Republican party operatives. That led to revelations of an attempted coverup and ultimately the end of Richard Nixon’s presidency.

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