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For Wilshire Baptist Church

Did you know that Thursday was World Backup Day – a day when everyone is urged to make backup copies of their important digital documents and photos? I didn’t know about it until I got an email from the maker of a device we have that lets you convert your old photographic slides and negatives into digital images to preserve and enjoy forever. Unless, of course, you fail to back them up and they are damaged or stolen or whatever.

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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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For Wilshire Baptist Church

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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