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I’m not often amused by Ash Wednesday services – I probably never should be – but I was this year as we stood in line to receive ashes on our foreheads from Associate Pastor Darren DeMent. The person right in front of LeAnn was as tall as Darren and he had to reach up as high as his own head, and then it was LeAnn’s turn and he had to reach down. Credit to Darren for paying close attention, because if he had just been going through the motions, he might have painted the air above LeAnn’s head with ashes. In basketball terms, a total miss like that would have been an “air ball.”

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

When did symphony audiences start applauding after every movement of a multi-movement piece? We went to the Dallas Symphony recently and were surprised to find that was happening. I wasn’t triggered by it, but I was definitely annoyed because “that’s not the way I was raised,” as we say. 

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

It was one of those on-line typos that makes you cringe, makes you laugh, then makes you think.

Wilshire’s Helen Moore-Montgomery sent me this birthday greeting Sunday on Facebook: “HAPPY SABBATH BIRTHDAY DEAR BROTHER, MAY THE NEW MILE BRING SMOOTH ROADS AND HAPPY TRAILS.” (Helen always types in caps.)

I answered: “Happy trials indeed! Thanks so much!”

Do you see it? I wrote “trials” instead of “trails.” I didn’t notice it but Helen did and pointed it out right away.

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