Author: Rhonda Schrock

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Dec 22, 2018

The most spiritual thing you can do this Christmas

Imagine that it was your birthday. For weeks, folks around you have been making preparations. They’re decorating. Shopping. Sending invites. Buying gifts. Planning food. Playing music. Gorgeous outfits are purchased.

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Dec 20, 2018

How to be a safe woman for noble men

In the intervening time, these words have bobbed quietly in the back of my mind, twirling like a leaf atop a creek in the fall. Dancing away from the shore, out

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Dec 19, 2018

Returning to simplicity brings relief

I have come to value simplicity. I mean, greatly, and I’ve come to despise the complicated. (It’s the complicated form of religion or way of living that exhausts you and

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Dec 18, 2018

God can still use your messin’-up kid

I’m thinkin’ of mothers today. Like the mother of David, the shepherd boy. She raised a kid who ended up having sex with another man’s wife, then arranged her husband’s

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Dec 13, 2018

“What if Jesus isn’t real?”

Every once in awhile, it happens. The Cub’s getting ready to head for bed, and he says it, “Mom, wanna come lay down with me?” I’ve learned that sometimes, he’s

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Dec 05, 2018

Dear Wanderer, Come home

Dear Wanderer, I’m sitting here in a quiet house today. The Christmas lights are shining on the tree, all of my men are at work or at school, and the

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Nov 26, 2018

Fearful mother, you can trust Mary’s boy (even when)

It’s my son across the sea. My adventuring, off-again, far-away son, he with the Jesus hair. “Kelly Anne died.” Oh, God. My heart skips a beat. And like that, I’m

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Nov 21, 2018

The best preparation for your feast (it’s your heart)

FacebookTwitterGoogle+DiggPinterestBlogger I’m fixin’ to be Hosting Girl. Tomorrow, an influx of relatives is happening here on The Three. When I was thinking about it the other day, I felt that

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Nov 16, 2018

The political post that isn’t (I voted for Trump)

I voted for Donald Trump. There. I said it. I could list the reasons. Things like national security and protecting our borders. Lowering taxes and boosting business. Respect for our

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Oct 27, 2018

Kept beneath His wings

“He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust.” In autumn’s chill light, the ancient words fall like quiet rain upon my listening ear. In

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