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For Wilshire Baptist Church

What is home? I mean, what is it really? We all know the saying, “home is where the heart is,” but then that begs the question, “where is the heart?”

A piece of my heart has always been in Great Falls, Montana, where I was born while my father was in the Air Force. LeAnn and I flew into that small city last week on our way to Yellowstone National Park. She’d never been there, and I had been there just once before — twice if you count the six months that I lived there after I was born.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

My parents were doing some home cleanup and asked if I wanted to keep newsletters from my time at DART. I had put them on the mailing list and they had stacked up. It didn’t take me a heartbeat to answer: “No reason to keep them. Work from the past doesn’t hold much weight anymore.”

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

We were at SMU for a preview of “Country Music,” the new Ken Burns documentary series, and while we waited we heard the beautiful Emmylou Harris ballad, “Boulder to Birmingham.” I hadn’t thought about that song in years, and I went straight to Wikipedia on my phone and recalled that it was written by Harris and Bill Danoff. I know who he is because I’m a song lyric junkie, and you know him too if you’ve ever heard John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” Danoff cowrote that song with his wife Taffy Nivert and with some final polishing from Denver before he recorded it.

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