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For Wilshire Baptist Church

On a recent walk on one of Garland’s creek-side trails, a woman approached us quickly with a cell phone near her ear and a worried look on her face. She lowered her phone — she said she was on hold with the police — and she asked if we’d seen a driver’s license on the trail. She said it had come out of her pocket and she was retracing her steps to find it. We hadn’t seen it but we told her we’d watch for it as we continued walking. For the rest of our walk I was staring at the bland pavement and the grass beside the trail rather than enjoying the trees and blue sky above.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

After months of prodding, I finally gave in and took my father’s lawnmower. He quit using it a couple of years ago when he hired a lawn service and it was just sitting in his garage and mine for the taking if I wanted it. 

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

Last week was unusually busy with breakdowns and glitches. 

It started Monday when LeAnn went to get something out of the little freezer in the garage and found it wasn’t running. The breaker on the socket had popped and while the freezer was still cool, it was no longer cold. If left to my limited knowledge, I would have thrown everything away and started over, or kept it all and risked food poisoning. Instead, we threw away what we had to – ice cream and fish for sure – and LeAnn smartly went into cooking and baking mode on the items that were redeemable such as ground beef and pie crusts. I couldn’t have done that on my own.

Continue reading “A Little Help, Please”