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Don’t Forget to Look Back

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My family and I have been doing a lot of looking ahead. While planning the move to Texas we looked ahead for everything from a place to live to what grocery stores were in the area. Now here and settled in Fort Worth we look ahead to events, due dates, or holidays. We plan our weeks out ahead for food purchases, always trying to stay “ahead” of all the many things in life  that always seem to be running faster than we are.Now I’m not here to say that planning and...

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The Closeness of Family

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A friend told me the other day that her daughter, who recently graduated from SMU, plans to stay in Dallas instead of moving back to Fort Worth. The distance between Fort Worth and Dallas seemed relatively small to me but clearly not to her. As I listened to her talk, I heard two things. First, it sounded like most or all her extended family lives in Fort Worth. Keeping that in mind, Dallas probably does seem far by comparison. My family experience, for several generations, has been one of...

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