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For Wilshire Baptist Church

I recently spent a week in a digital fog when my computer would not boot beyond the sign-in screen. Through diagnostic programs I could see that everything was still on the hard drive; I just couldn’t get to it. And when I tried the prescribed software fixes, none of them worked. That left me with three options: take the computer to a repair shop and hope they could fix it; buy a new computer and transfer my data; or . . . gulp . . . erase the hard drive, reload the operating system, and pray that all my data was safe in the cloud.

Continue reading “In the Clouds”

For Wilshire Baptist Church

Late Saturday morning we took a walk at White Rock Lake between helping set up Wilshire’s Fall Festival in the parking lot and taking it down later. It always amazes me how taking an event down takes a fraction of the time as setting it up. I’m sure it’s because dismantling doesn’t require as much planning, coordinating and attention.

Continue reading “The Nature of Things”

For Wilshire Baptist Church

It was great to hear the sound of college football in the house on an early fall Saturday. I wasn’t even really watching — my team wasn’t playing — but still I loved the sound: the crowd noise, the tweets of whistles, the rumble of drum lines, the rising and falling of the announcers’ voices. It’s been part of my fall Saturdays for years and it creates a certain familiar cozy feeling deep down in my subconscious. To me it is a signature sound of fall and it signals all that will follow: cooler weather, busy calendars, holidays on the horizon.

Continue reading “High Fives and Signs of Peace”