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For Wilshire Baptist Church

It was one of those crazy, amazing coincidences that can’t be explained but just enjoyed – and paid forward when the opportunity comes.

After nine years of Texas weather, our porch swing was falling apart. The chains were rusting and the fake poly wicker was popping off in pieces, exposing the metal and wood frame underneath and generally looking shabby. Saturday afternoon we visited a couple of specialty stores we thought might have swings but they didn’t. We decided to look at Lowe’s on Northwest Highway before going home and shopping online, which is how we got the first swing.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

We went to the movies for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic and saw “Dream Horse,” one of those British movies with quirky characters and a good story that gets critical acclaim from the few people who see it. It’s a true story about a small Welsh village where the people are just grinding along from day to day with not much happening to get excited about. That changes when a checker at the grocery store gets the idea to form a syndicate among the townspeople to buy a mare, breed it with a stallion that has racing blood, and raise a contender.

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From “Together: Thoughts and Stories About Living in Community”

“Who wants a Fudgsicle?” That’s what Dad asked enthusiastically from the kitchen on a visit with my parents. It was a familiar question, and I readily responded as I always have: “I do.”

When I was a kid it wasn’t unusual for Dad to stop at the neighborhood 7-Eleven to cash a check and pick up whatever else was needed. And more often than not, especially on Sunday nights after church, he’d come out of the store with all of that and a handful of Fudgsicles. In case you aren’t familiar, Fudgsicles are chocolate ice cream bars on a stick and once were sold individually in big floor freezers at convenience stores. Maybe they still are.

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