Category: Rhonda’s Posts

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Dec 11, 2015

Dear tired mother

You came to my mind just today. I was driving along in the predawn dark. The earliest sun was just caressing the edge of the world, fingers reaching, and I

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Dec 04, 2015

A white Christian girl walks into a bar

It comes in the early-morning dark. An email slips into an inbox. It is the next step, another link in an unlikely chain of events, taking an unlikely girl to an

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Nov 25, 2015

Because He’s not finished

It was a series he’d begun on the last words of Christ. At the start of the lesson, he’d dropped just one line, then rushed headlong into the outline. It

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Nov 20, 2015

Pursued hard by evil to the Light (and Light wins)

I’m standing at the sink, washing the day’s dishes, when I hear it one more time–the chime of an incoming message. Drying my hands, I snap up my phone, for

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Nov 03, 2015

Why I still go to Starbucks

A couple of months ago, I posted a picture of my Starbucks cup with a funny line that made me laugh, and I got a bit of feedback. Folks piped

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Oct 30, 2015

Jesus, the shining star on the canvas (or, lessons learned in a camp)

It was the first time we’d Skyped since they’d landed in Greece. After a 12-hour bus ride, a layover in Athens, more travel and then a ferry ride over, their

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Oct 27, 2015

“We’re all special needs”

It popped right on out. Sometimes it dawns, slow and steady as the sun. Other times, it bursts upon you as autumn rains and winds lash over one’s yard. And every once

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Oct 23, 2015

On a sea-lashed shore, Love awaits

FacebookTwitterGoogle+DiggPinterestBlogger It was just this Sunday last. After days of silence, he’d messaged me. The team, he said, had moved to another town, and wi-fi was a 45-minute walk. To

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Oct 19, 2015

To satan, “Your butt just got whipped”

Plain and simple. To my great delight, it pleased Him. Far from meting out condemnation or reproof, it seemed to me that He smiled. And stepped into my lab. Then came

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Oct 16, 2015

“Grounds for Insanity” and Praise

I’d told it before, how The Mister, he’d preach (“you should be writing!”). How I would resist with some snark and some sass. How all of a sudden, a door.

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