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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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For Wilshire Baptist Church

Have you checked your permanent record lately? You know, the “permanent record” school teachers and principals told you about way back when?

Sunday morning while helping LeAnn get her Sunday school room ready for the pre-K class, I noticed a stack of manila folders with names on them, probably for the children who attend Wilshire’s weekday early childhood learning center. And the first thing I thought was, “Are these their permanent records?”

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