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Halloween 2023 will be remembered for plentiful treats, a few tricks and abundant hugs.

We had 91 kids come to our door. We thought we had enough candy for the crowd, but as the bucket began to dwindle, we raided the pantry for other packaged snacks such as pretzels and peanut butter crackers. We joked that maybe we could hand out random fast food condiment packets such as ketchup and salad dressing, but the treats outlasted the kids and no tricks were needed.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

I was working upstairs at my desk on Wednesday morning when LeAnn came up to report on our fall tomatoes. It had been a few days since she had inspected the crop, and when she came upstairs, she had news. Not only were the plants teeming with green tomatoes thanks to the cooler weather, but they had attracted their greatest nemesis. A few minutes later, I was in the garden with LeAnn hunting the evil that is the tomato hornworm.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

“Are you having a good day?”

That’s a question Thelma Kite likes to ask many of those who cross her path, whether a longtime friend, a grocery clerk, a doctor or a salesman at her front door.

It’s a brilliant question when you think about it, because it’s not as open ended and thus open to a brush-off answer as the more usual, “How are you?” Thelma’s question – “Are you having a good day?” – invites a conversation, because whether you answer “yes” or even “no,” it prompts a follow-up of, “Tell me about that” or “Why is that?”

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