For Wilshire Baptist Church
It’s not unusual for a guest to be asked to say grace at the dinner table. Awkward maybe, but not so unusual. It can be both unusual and awkward, however, if you’re a Baptist sitting with a table full of Catholics. But for me, it also was a special blessing when Terri Wearden was the one asking.
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Two Sundays ago my phone buzzed in my pocket and I pulled it out quickly in case it was something urgent. It wasn’t. It was a message from Apple News: “The Emmys are about to start. Who will win? Who’ll be robbed?”
Robbed — really? I always thought that to be robbed of something, you first must possess it. It used to be that the entertainment media would report on those who were “overlooked” or “snubbed” during these award shows, but now the language has escalated to “robbed.”
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Our Wilshire Winds instrumental ensemble returned to the rehearsal hall on Monday evening for the first time since early 2020. It was great to be back together, and we started by playing “Hymn for a Child,” a rich arrangement of the familiar childhood tune, “Jesus Loves Me.” It’s the first thing I’ve played on my saxophone since we played outdoors on Easter Sunday, but somewhat surprisingly, I played the tune outdoors just a couple of weeks ago.
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