Jeff Hampton – Page 29 – Jeff Hampton, Writer

July 27, 2023

Neighborhood 9-1-1

For Wilshire Baptist Church

I didn’t want to call 9-1-1 on the girls, but that’s the way it went down. And sometimes you just need to start the process to get to the heart of the matter and maybe get someone or something back on track.

It started on Saturday while we were at a funeral and we noticed afterward our Ring doorbell had captured three quick videos of two women on our front porch. We watched and listened as they seemed to be alerting us about something “not moving” in our side yard near the vacant house next door. When we got home, I walked around the yard expecting to find an injured dog or cat and found nothing.

July 20, 2023

Three Notes, Two Stories, One Faith

For Wilshire Baptist Church

In the infusion clinic where I go every week for chemotherapy treatments, the IV pumps sound three notes when they need attention. And thankfully, those three notes have conjured not just one but two stories in my mind.

July 13, 2023

Built to Last

For Wilshire Baptist Church

On a recent Saturday morning, while it was still sort of cool, we did a little weeding in the back yard. LeAnn attacked the flower beds while I focused on our pea gravel pathway, where Bermuda grass grows better than in the actual lawn. There, among the round and colorless gravel, I found a quarter-sized chunk of Sunset Red granite.