Short Memory

For Wilshire Baptist Church

Remember the house explosion in Plano? Or the condo building collapse in Florida? And what about that deadly pet cobra that slithered into hiding in Grand Prairie? Oh, and the children in cages on the Texas border? What happened to all these news stories that had us spellbound, captivated or outraged?

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Repairs: Minor and Major

For Wilshire Baptist Church

“Do you need some help?”

Our neighbor Carlos walked across the street to check on me, no doubt after seeing and hearing me start, stop and restart my mower several times. I was under the shade of the trees, troubleshooting a breakdown in the mower’s self-propulsion drive system, and when he came over and asked the question, I had the front wheels off, the front end up on a flowerpot, and I was looking underneath at the belt that turns the wheels.

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Intervention

For Wilshire Baptist Church

Sitting on the sofa yesterday evening, I looked out the back windows and thought I saw an animal in our back yard. We don’t have a fence so it wouldn’t be unusual; we’ve looked out before and seen cats and dogs, possums and rabbits. Still, I wanted to know if it was friend or foe so I went out to look. As my eyes focused in the deepening dusk, it didn’t take long to see that it wasn’t an animal; it was a large hawk, on the ground, hopping about and spreading it’s wings. I called for LeAnn and she came out to see it too. 

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