For Wilshire Baptist Church
“You’ve come out here at the hottest time of the day?” The man added a chuckle and a smirk to his question, which I took to mean “silly tourists.” We didn’t answer him as we walked past him and up the sandy hill, because we knew what we were doing. We were going to church for the second time that day.
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While the windstorm of May 28 didn’t do much damage to our house, it took two weeks to repair it. Actually, the repair was made in one hour, but it took two weeks to find someone to do it. When I found that person, we got it done – together.
Our damage was minor: one piece of siding pulled loose and hanging from a second-story wall. The siding is made of fiber cement, which is heavy and prone to chip if not handled properly. It requires some expertise I don’t have, so I contacted two handymen recommended by two good friends. But with continued rain and no doubt a backlog of repair projects, the men were slow getting back to me. When one, Sidney, finally came and looked at the project while I was away, he texted me: “It’s a quick fix but getting to it may be a safety issue for me, so no guarantees.”
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Wilshire and the church at large recently observed two Sundays that highlight the Holy Spirit — Pentecost and Trinity — and those days often have me reflecting on the Branch Davidians. Not the misguided followers of David Koresh, who fed them lies about holy war and end times, but the peaceful followers of Lois Roden who preceded him. The ones who followed the movements of the Trinity and especially the Holy Spirit.
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