For Wilshire Baptist Church
Fifty years ago today, on April 6, 1971, my sister, Martha Ann Hampton, age nine, died from injuries after an automobile accident on our way to my grandparents’ house for Easter. Nobody else in our car was seriously injured, but our lives were changed forever.
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“Looks like I need to brush the powdered sugar off my shoulders.”
That’s what I told LeAnn on Palm Sunday morning as I got ready to dress up for church for the first time in more than a year. I pulled my blue blazer down from the upper rod in the closet and found that the shoulders were covered with a fine white dust that looked like powdered sugar. The same was true across the top fold of my dress pants. Neither garment had been touched in more than a year.
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Eating BBQ under a sheet-metal shed in the howling, dusty wind at a roadside stand was not our first choice for dinner after a long day of exploring Big Bend National Park. It wasn’t even our Plan B; it was just what happened. But for Don Bauchman, owner of DB’s Rustic Iron BBQ in Terlingua, feeding hungry folks like us is a vocation and fulfillment of a longtime dream.
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