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Sometimes it feels a bit rote and habitual to come to this time of year and stop to “give thanks” for whatever comes to mind that we’ve enjoyed, benefitted from or been blessed by in the weeks and months since the last time we celebrated Thanksgiving. Don’t get me wrong: It’s a good exercise and one we should not take lightly. But what if we looked ahead and gave thanks in advance for what hasn’t happened yet? Is that even possible? And if so, what would our list look like?

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

Have you ever been absent from a place for a long time and gone back and been welcomed as if you never left?

That happened to me recently at Pizza Getti, a little pizza and pasta place on South Buckner that I frequented for 20 years when I lived in the Casa Linda neighborhood in East Dallas. Small, quiet, friendly with great pizza for dining in or taking home, it was my to-go place until life took a turn and I moved to Garland. To the best of my figuring, I was absent from Pizza Getti for at least 18 years.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

Sometimes our lives play out in circles of activity that connect past, present and future.

Wednesday evening I planned to drop LeAnn off at church for kid’s choir, go check George Gagliardi’s mailbox while he continued to convalesce, then circle back to church for Bible study. But, it’s been a busy week and LeAnn suggested I might want to go to White Rock Lake instead and just sit quietly for a while. “You used to love to do that,” she said.

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