For Wilshire Baptist Church
Last week I did something I’ve been putting off for years: I opened up my old camera bag, threw away some odds and ends, and took the rest of it to a camera shop. Most of the contents I simply pushed across the counter for them to recycle in whatever way they wished, but I did want to be paid for my Canon 70-to-150-mm zoom lens.
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It’s not unusual for a guest to be asked to say grace at the dinner table. Awkward maybe, but not so unusual. It can be both unusual and awkward, however, if you’re a Baptist sitting with a table full of Catholics. But for me, it also was a special blessing when Terri Wearden was the one asking.
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Two Sundays ago my phone buzzed in my pocket and I pulled it out quickly in case it was something urgent. It wasn’t. It was a message from Apple News: “The Emmys are about to start. Who will win? Who’ll be robbed?”
Robbed — really? I always thought that to be robbed of something, you first must possess it. It used to be that the entertainment media would report on those who were “overlooked” or “snubbed” during these award shows, but now the language has escalated to “robbed.”
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