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For Wilshire Baptist Church

Sunday we closed worship at Wilshire by singing “Sweet, Sweet Spirit” by Doris Akers. I was not feeling well and watched at home on live stream, but I texted LeAnn: “Just stay in your seat until it ends.” As far as I know, nobody got hurt.

I say that because one of the near-folkloric tales in our family is that sometime in the 1970s at the height of that song’s popularity and before it made it into the hymn books, my grandmother had her fill of it being sung in their service every week and decided to walk out of church. She stepped out the front doors of First Baptist Sherman, took a tumble and broke her arm.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

I often stream our local classical music radio station as I work at the computer, especially in the afternoon. But I got impatient with the station recently because they were having their first-ever public-radio-style pledge drive. That makes perfect sense for them since they merged with our local NPR station and are now part of that world. But they were talking more than playing music and it was cramping my style. 

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

My hair started falling out today. I was told it would, and after taking a half step yesterday at the barber shop, I’ll take a full step tomorrow.

Let me back up a moment and explain that I was recently diagnosed with a tumor in my right sinus and we’re attacking it with chemotherapy, and beginning next week, radiation. The oncologist told me from the start that I would lose my hair, and last Friday he said I would start losing my hair by today. He really knows his stuff, which I’m grateful for. So, with a haircut already on the calendar, I conferred with my stylist and we decided to go very short but still comb-able.

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