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PEN THE PUN

We drove down to the airport this morning at O Dark Thirty to send off our softball-playing daughter and her dad, along with her teammates and other parents and fans. This select summer team is winging off to Georgia for the national tournament of the American Softball Association, one of only three teams from Nebraska to have made it there.

The minute she gets back, she’ll be thrown into her high-school softball season for her senior year. She’s really looking forward to it, although her hopes of being an intimidating senior were dashed the other day when a gas station attendant accused her of not being old enough to drive by herself. Baby Face!

But she’s mature in the ways that count. For example, on the drive down to the airport this morning, I asked her whether she and her fellow seniors had come up with a slogan for this year’s high-school season. That’s a key senior prerogative for her team, the Elkhorn Antlers.

In the past, the slogan has been “Fear the Deer”.

Well, every single one of the girls on the team this year is a knockout. They are ultra-feminine even though they are the reigning state champions. They enjoy being girls – girls who can slug it to the fence and still fill out their Prom gowns nicely. So they are thinking about this slogan for their senior season as Antlers:

“Respect the Rack”

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Prayer request: We pray for healing and serenity for the mother of our good friend Cindy, a former Omahan now of Kansas City. Her mother has undergone both a hysterectomy and a mastectomy in recent weeks. We praise You, Lord, for making Vance and Cindy so caring and responsible in looking after her, and covet prayers for their rest and reassurance as well, through this ordeal. (Jeremiah 31:12)