For Wilshire Baptist Church
In the midst of an ongoing text conversation during the first rounds of March Madness, my friend Gary noted that my Baylor Bears would be the first to play on that Saturday and his Houston Cougars would be first to play on Sunday. “Good thing it’s today for Baylor. Oh the quandary among the faithful if it was tomorrow, eh?”
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Sunday afternoon we walked on the Spring Creek Trail in Garland to soak up the sunshine and stretch our legs after a week of cold, wet weather. It’s not a rugged or strenuous walk by any measure, although there is a short segment that is unpaved and provides a sense of not being in the city when in fact you’re surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people. In this place, it’s possible to see both the perfect beauty of nature and the ugliness of people.
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I’ve begun physical therapy to get my right arm moving again following surgery to repair a torn rotator tendon. It’s slow work, sometimes boring and sometimes painful, but with each session I can see my range of motion increasing. One of the keys to success is handing over control to someone else, and that’s something I’m not very good at.
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