Author: Rhonda Schrock

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Jul 03, 2014

When you need to be pulled from the net

I open the Word. And the psalmist speaks. “In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. Let me never be ashamed. Deliver me in thy righteousness.” Inside, I’m nodding.

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Jul 01, 2014

Language is tricky; singing (not sinning) encouraged

It was a small letter, but the difference it made was big. “The patient recently sold her hose.” Wait. What? I looked at what I’d just typed. House. She’d sold

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Jun 26, 2014

“He is enough”

Indiana summer is here. After a brutal winter that kept us huddled indoors like so many houseplants, the sun has returned, and the corn. If it’s possible for one’s whole

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Jun 24, 2014

“Procaffeinating” mother roars into summer, hates rabbits, eats dessert

I’d not heard it before. It was a new one for me, and I knew right away I was an expert. Procaffeinating. That was the word. Procrastinating while caffeinating. And

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Jun 20, 2014

In thorny seasons, you are on His mind

I’ll just say it plain:  I’m in a quandary, unsure of what to do, which choice to make.  Even The Mister is uncertain; doesn’t want to say, “Yes, I think you should,” only to

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Jun 17, 2014

The truth about bodies, aging and what beauty really is

If anything could bring it on, a trip through the checkout lane was it. One stopped off, thinking that all she was getting was groceries for the week. Instead, what

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Jun 16, 2014

When God’s pillows have rocks

It happened a couple of months back. We were talking, Mister and I, with a friend about our Saul-turning-Paul’s journey. God had heard Mother’s prayer for a “Damascus moment,” and

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Jun 12, 2014

When holy rain falls in the desert

I slip outside, pack slung on a shoulder, coffee in hand, and I sit. Before me, it spreads. Three acres, often sunny, where birds call, squirrels dash, rabbits hop, flowers

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Jun 11, 2014

When your back side’s gettin’ crispy

The rains had come.  Drought still gripped the land, but the liquid gold, so long delayed, had begun to fall, transforming brown landscapes with advancing shades of green. In our

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Jun 10, 2014

Extreme sport of motherhood takes grit, resolve

“Raising boys—that’s an extreme sport!” Such was the sentiment that found its way to my desk on the recent Mother’s Day weekend. On the front was a photo of three

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