Author: Rhonda Schrock

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Dec 13, 2011

“If you give a boy a (well, pretty much anything),” mayhem ensues

She must’ve been at my house.  Or peeked in the windows, at least.  Surely, surely she’s had kids of her own, and that’s how she was able to write it.

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Dec 09, 2011

Untangling the tinsel

Tangle, huh?  While I regularly “untangle” there in that place with the aroma of fresh-ground beans, the lights in greenery twining, and Christmas music tinkling in the air, I knew

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Dec 08, 2011

What a trip like that can do, Part Two

It was a mission trip to the Dominican Republic this summer that impacted his life.  He’d loved the country, loved the people, loved living on the edge and having new

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Dec 06, 2011

There’s so much we didn’t know, that mother and I

I always wanted to be a mother.  As a girl, I played house with my dollies, taking them to church, shushing them when they cried, and kissing their plastic heads. I didn’t

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Dec 02, 2011

When the joy slips away

Looking up verses on “rest” this morning, I find it there in Hebrews: “There remains a rest for the people of God.”  For anyone who enters His rest ceases from

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Nov 30, 2011

When she’s better than you

I’m talking about that awful Comparison Game.  Not having enough time, space, or wisdom to dissect the whole kaboodle and analyze from whence it springs, I do know this –

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Nov 29, 2011

From X-Ray Day to the one I won’t touch, there’s lots to celebrate

I see that Better Conversation Week ran at the back end of November.  Good thinking.  If I give the locals several weeks to cool down from their week of angst,

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Nov 28, 2011

Embrace the small; embrace the still

As I often do when driving alone, I was speaking aloud my heart, my concerns, picturing Jesus Himself in the seat to the right.  Thinking, thinking, praying… Here and there

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Nov 23, 2011

No ungrateful lepers, we

He’s just done it again.  Jesus, Gentle Healer, heart beating full with love for those castoffs, speaks a word and heals the lepers.  His word alone, going forth, makes them

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Nov 22, 2011

Grandma’s visit brings out the professor in Mom

“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”  Mr. Pope must’ve been thinking of me when he wrote that line.  

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