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“So, who’s that dude with his hand touching his heart?”

I looked out the car window. We were passing the Catholic cathedral on Ross Avenue in downtown Dallas. “Uh, that dude would be Jesus,” I answered. 

We were with Ethan, our youngest nephew, who lives in New Mexico but was staying with us while performing in Wilshire’s summer MusiCamp. It was a fair question coming from a boy raised in the evangelical church and not the Catholic tradition. I was raised in that same tradition and at that age I might have had the same question, because our church, like Ethan’s church, didn’t have statues and icons. It’s mostly years and experience that provided me the answer.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

As much as we love using emojis on social media because they are colorful and are a quick way of making a statement, many are difficult to translate. That’s especially true with all the iterations of smile faces. Some are obvious: happy, mad, embarrassed. But some are less so unless you know the person sending them and have become familiar with their emoji vocabulary.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

The card inside the box of flowers said: “From your loving husband. I will keep you forever. You make my whole self smile. I couldn’t trade you for anything in the world.”

The flowers were delivered to our front porch by mistake, but at first we opened them thinking they were sent to LeAnn as a “get well soon” gift following eye surgery. But then we read the card and checked the address on the box. The number was right, but the street name was wrong; the correct destination was the boutique Belmont Hotel near downtown Dallas. I called the flower company and talked through the mistake and learned that the flowers were ordered by a man who was celebrating his anniversary with his wife. We were told, “Keep the flowers and we’ll send them a new box.”

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