Some of the best gifts are the unexpected ones. Like a souvenir from a long-gone restaurant where the first sentences of a new chapter of life were written.
A couple of months ago, I was sitting with the Wilshire Winds at the front of the sanctuary and waiting for the Sunday service to begin, when Charlene Law walked up to me and handed me a small thin box.
“I was going through some stuff and found this. Thought you and LeAnn might want it,” she said.
Continue reading “Writing Sweet Memories”Sunday morning in Wilshire’s Epiphany class, pastoral resident Maggie Morey led us in a discussion of how music contributes so richly to our lives in so many ways. There were lots of good thoughts shared about how music triggers memories and feelings and can feed our spirit in ways that words and other forms of communication can’t. I’m totally on board with all that and could have contributed plenty but I was silent. I was still tumbling down a musical rabbit hole I fell into an hour earlier and I’ve been in all week.
Continue reading “Musical Rabbit Holes and Pipedreams”These are noisy days in our old Embree neighborhood in Garland. We live approximately 250 feet from First Baptist Garland, which is in the early stages of a project that in 16 months will conclude with the opening of an impressive new sanctuary.
As neighbors to First Baptist and lifelong churchgoers ourselves, we are intrigued by the project and very interested in its success. The church has been a good neighbor to us and we’ve tried to be the same. We’ve attended some programs there, used their activity center for exercise, and they’ve let us use their parking lot for gatherings at our house, including Wilshire events.
Continue reading “Brick and Mortar; Spirit and Soul”