Category: Rhonda’s Posts

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Jan 19, 2016

Why you’re never hopeless: the truth that brings relief

It came as it often did, the Voice. Quiet, small and still, and it brought relief. In early morning’s dark, I’m driving along. Bound for the Land of Milk and

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Jan 15, 2016

Called to pray–for him?

FacebookTwitterGoogle+DiggPinterestBlogger In the picture, they’re gathered around, arms reaching. Some hands are lifted in supplication, and others are touching a man. In the center. The one in the middle of

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Jan 14, 2016

When life’s not worth living, “He knows”

Today, I feel led to slip in a quiet word for someone in particular. I don’t know your name. I don’t know where you’re at. But He does, and He

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Jan 11, 2016

The aroma that invites (or, what I learned in a candle store)

It was ironic, really, the place where it came. In the fall of the year, we’d made our annual trek. It was what we did. It was how we prepared

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Jan 07, 2016

Dear girl (of any age), You have a beautiful body

A crisp, wintry breeze is blowing. Birdsong twinkles sheer joy in the air, and Papa, He’s walking ‘longside. “Thank You,” I say, “for this breeze. For these blessings. Thank You

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Jan 04, 2016

What the stained-glass window says (and why you should shine in the New Year)

I’m running along our country road. The fields on either hand lie fallow, slumbering and still, tucked in ‘neath a blanket of white. Birdsong trills unseen, joy-notes like crystals sprinkling

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Dec 28, 2015

When your imagination’s running wild (what you need to know)

Outside, a winter storm’s moved in. Rain sounds, tink-tink-tink like frozen bullets against the window. The wind, it howls, whips ’round corners, tossing branches, and inside… In my quiet house,

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Dec 23, 2015

When you’re not the prettiest one in the room

FacebookTwitterGoogle+DiggPinterestBlogger This is not an easy post for me to write. There are a number of reasons for this. Suffice it to say, it’s enough for me to tell you

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Dec 21, 2015

When you need His hand on your back

Standing at the kitchen sink, I look up. The Painter, I see, has slipped by in the night, touching the trees on The Three with a colorful brush. The leaves,

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Dec 16, 2015

Letters from a Friend: Why it’s safe to collapse

The morning sun that shone on you today as you ran was Me. The clouds that had hovered for days, blocking the light, parted for just a bit at Father’s

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