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Sunday night we sat in the closet under our stairs waiting for whatever might happen. We’d been following the weather reports on TV, and when the radar maps showed the tornado moving eastward across North Dallas toward our Garland neighborhood, we went into the closet and listened to the reports with the door open. When the power went out and the TV went silent, we closed the door and watched the reports on our iPhones.
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Last Wednesday evening, Wilshire member Mark McKenzie started a three-week study on “Jazz + Faith,” and it’s off to a great start. We haven’t even gotten to the “faith” part of it yet, but in week one Mark walked us through the history of jazz in sounds, words and images. It was fascinating and revealing and I’m looking forward to week two and seeing how faith enters the picture.
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Working in the yard on Friday I could hear the laughter of children on the playground at the church down the street. I hear that most days when I’m working outside and I don’t think much about it. But this time my mind locked in on the sounds of childish play because I was getting the yard and the house cleaned up for a bridal shower.
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