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      <title><![CDATA[The Unity of the Brothers]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“Brothers!” my youngest grandson shouts. “Hey, Brothers.” And my heart melts just a little. His two older brothers wrestle with each other at the round kitchen table. Laughing, shoving, a...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is Go Into All the World Outdated?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/is-go-into-all-the-world-outdated/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I remember the cool feel of the wooden pew in the church of my childhood, that little hop I needed to get my seat onto it, the shimmied push to the back until finally ruffles surrounded m...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Can We See Clearly In A Blurred World?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/how-can-we-see-clearly-in-a-blurred-world/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[My husband and I hurried through the airport , to make our connection while dodging and squeezing between other fliers and their bags. It was the last leg of our flight back home and we m...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Passing Down the Fatherhood Mantel]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/passing-down-the-fatherhood-mantel/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[We’ve sailed past Father’s Day on our calendars. Some, like me, remembered fondly those blood lines that brought physical life. Others tried to forget, and still others celebrated men tha...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[When God Has Other Plans]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/when-god-has-other-plans/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:30:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it,...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[My Great Expectations]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/my-great-expectations/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:30:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[By the time I post this, our big family-grandson-wedding-get-together should be a thing of the past. Hopefully it will be laced with precious memories. At this stage with kids, grandkids,...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Listening to the Voice of Direction]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/listening-to-the-voice-of-direction/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:30:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“You are over the speed limit,” the friendly but slightly mechanical voice says. I smile. She’s my friend, a companion who takes care of a little piece of driving worry. And, I like that...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What is Our Tower of Babel Today?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/what-is-our-tower-of-babel-today/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:30:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[When many were saying, “Next thing you know, they’ll be listening to us in our houses,” my dad was carefully picking up the receiver on our wall party line to listen to our neighbors. Eve...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Unprompted Words From the Heart]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/unprompted-words-from-the-heart/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:30:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“I love you, Grandpa and Grandma,” my twenty-year-old grandson said before he ended our phone conversation. He is about to turn the ripe old age of twenty-one and will be married in less...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[That Last Glimpse Prepares Us For A First]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/that-last-glimpse-prepares-us-for-a-first/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 14:30:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[It might have been at our little town’s parade, or maybe at the State fair, but I have a faded memory from childhood of a cart with balloons floating above it. They were bunched together...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Day Mom Forgot Me]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/the-day-mom-forgot-me/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:30:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I’m a mom. I know the tug of the umbilical cord from birth until giving each baby away to love and cherish another. I’m a grandma, and I recognize the family units that must even take pre...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Who Gets the Credit?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/who-gets-the-credit/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:30:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[You’ve worked hard, poured yourself into the project, sacrificed and finally it’s done. And it turned out good. No, even better than expected. In fact, you feel down right euphoric about...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Measure of My Days]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/the-measure-of-my-days/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:30:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I hold one end of the measuring tape while my husband walks backward. The metal unwinds until he reaches the spot he wants marked. His thumb stops at the line and he bends the tape toward...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[When Christian Living Fights a Battle With Compromise]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:30:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“Owwwwwch!” I moaned to no one but anyone who might be so inclined as to listen. Making the bed has its risks. Working from left to right I consistently stub my toes on the hard edge of t...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Do You Recognize Jesus?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/do-you-recognize-jesus/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:30:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I stretch my arm in waking fogginess. My fingers begin a walking search for my glasses. I am not a morning person. “Not” in an extreme sense. I get up at neither an insanely early hour no...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[In Awe and Wonder of How Great Thou Art]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/in-awe-and-wonder-of-how-great-thou-art/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:37:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Slowly the crowd came to its feet. Some laboriously used the row ahead for leverage. Over the attendees, silver glinted, like imperfect halos, caught by the lighting above. Although the g...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Learning to Laugh Again]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/learning-to-laugh-again/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:15:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A notice comes on my phone. A picture of my great-grandson pops up. I open the app and find a video of his mommy talking to him, leaning over his little tummy and digging her head into hi...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Relevance of Truth]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/the-relevance-of-truth/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:30:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, it turns out that its value may be much less. Fake photos on social media showed captured U.S. Soldiers and Tel Aviv in shambles. They...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beautiful Language Indwells the Believer]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/beautiful-language-indwells-the-believer/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:30:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[When my daughters were teenagers growing up in Italy, a group of American high schoolers asked them for Italian swear words they could use. My bilingual daughters, were unfortunately accu...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Faith During Troubling Times]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/faith-during-troubling-times/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:30:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Our grandson drops his arms and ducks his chin. His despair comes from missing a soccer goal, a basketball shot gone wrong, or a race not won. His feet drag. He is disheartened. Unfortuna...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What’s Good About That Put Down?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/whats-good-about-that-put-down/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:30:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I had a little unintended smackdown. Probably well deserved, but still…it kinda stung. And the entire time, I chided myself on one thing. I knew perfectly well that it shouldn’t have both...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is Loneliness A Mercy?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/is-loneliness-a-mercy/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:30:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“Ain’t no man that good,” I quipped. Everyone feels lonely at times. Truly good friends are rare and precious. I have book friends. Gym friends. Writing friends. Bible study friends. Hobb...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Do You Love Love?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/do-you-love-love/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:30:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The ring’s been on my finger over 50 years. When he gave it to me, I was afraid it would slide off and I’d lose it because my finger was so slim, so small. It’s kind of grown onto me now....]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Has Truth Stumbled in the Public Squares?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/has-truth-stumbled-in-the-public-squares/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:30:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A steaming cup of coffee warmed my hands. My husband lifted his tiny Italian espresso cup in salute. Outside the patio doors, cement like layers of snow-ice, shone so bright, we squinted...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Winter’s Damage Reveals the Soul]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/winters-damage-reveals-the-soul/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:30:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Whiter than snow, Lord, whiter than snow. Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. Wherever you live in the USA, you’ve been aware of the great snow storm. You have likely been part of pr...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Can We Step Off the Pedestal, Please?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/can-we-step-off-the-pedestal-please/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:30:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“He hit me first,” little arms cross in defiance, and little legs plant firmly. No retreat without a struggle. These are days grown ups brawl and pick sides, while firmly clinging to thei...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Clean Slates And New Beginnings]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/clean-slates-and-new-beginnings/</link>
      <guid>https://sylviaschroeder.com/clean-slates-and-new-beginnings/</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:30:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A white board hangs on one of the walls of our basement. On it scribblings mark the agenda of the day, that is, those perceived as most important through the eyes of the last grandchild t...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Will There Be Peace in the New Year?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/will-there-be-peace-in-the-new-year/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:30:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[When we lived in Italy, going to the American Embassy was always kind of a big deal. We needed to have papers and identification in order. We prepared. Despite our home country’s flag and...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Holding True Today Prepares Us For Tomorrow]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/holding-true-today-prepares-us-for-tomorrow/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:30:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“Just do what’s right today,” my husband’s voice said into my ear. The cell phone pressed hard against me, as if the very pressure could somehow put his words into my being. But doing rig...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Family Tree Before the Manger]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/the-family-tree-before-the-manger/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:30:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Growing up we called it the “Mennonite game.” Within a short span of meeting someone new, we somehow managed to find a connecting relative within a massive tangle of roots. When one of ou...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[From Uprooting to Belonging: How the Birth of a Savior Changes Everything.]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/from-uprooting-to-belonging-how-the-birth-of-a-savior-changes-everything/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:30:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[An angel appeared. A virgin conceived. Thousands of miles away a ruler declared a census. Like a drum roll of Sovereign timing and unstoppable happenings, the wheels of prophecy turned. W...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Christmas Search for Jesus]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/a-christmas-search-for-jesus/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:30:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Every year for the last five years my three youngest grandchildren have come to our house in December for Starry Night. The idea birthed in 2020 when the “Christmas Star” appeared. It was...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Thankful Hearts Are Tied to Trust]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/thankful-hearts-are-tied-to-trust/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:30:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Long before America created an overflowing and beautifully sophisticated Thanksgiving table, thanksgiving was a thing. Before pilgrims gathered around a rough wood hewn table, or a sweet...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What If You Don’t Feel Like Giving Thanks?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/what-if-you-dont-feel-like-giving-thanks/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:30:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NKJV) Last weekend I picked up my grandson’s big fat backpack to throw over my should...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Thanking God For All I See]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/thanking-god-for-all-i-see/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:30:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“Thank you for the sghetti,” the little voice said. My daughter’s hands, folded in prayer sat against the edge of the kitchen table. Those first prayers were so pure and yet so very contr...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is Your Accent On the Right Thing?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/is-your-accent-on-the-right-thing/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:30:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[When we moved into a tiny Italian village, we gained immediate notoriety as, The American Family. In fact, we were the only Americans in the area. We were an anomaly. I could feel the ten...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Message Are You Giving?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/what-message-are-you-giving/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:30:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[What is it about autumn that calls all gnats into my kitchen like the plagues of Egypt? And woe to the one who leaves out the banana peelings. Jesus’ message in Matthew, chapter 23, seem...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Autumn’s Dappled Light]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/autumns-dappled-light/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:30:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[It’s been a long yawn to full Autumn in Virginia. Trees have hesitated to blush but few have succumbed to their eventual fiery reds and yellows. This season seems hesitant to drop its lea...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Does Practice Make Perfect?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/what-does-practice-make-perfect/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:30:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[My dad, talented in all things musical, had a sharp ear and perfect pitch. “Should have been a B-flat not a B-natural.” He could be working the back forty, but when I struck a wrong note...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[God Is In the Detour]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/god-is-in-the-detour/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:30:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[My friend looked in his rearview mirror and saw the sign to a church, which propelled him to whip his car into an unplanned detour. His life’s trajectory changed that Sunday by his decisi...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Smell Under the Kitchen Sink]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/the-smell-under-the-kitchen-sink/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:30:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes, four… The smell started as a vague drift of unpleasantness. But as I cleaned off the counter, a sniff of something not quite right remained. Afte...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Can God Change Your Character?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/can-god-change-your-character/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:30:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“The temperature will be 94 degrees Fahrenheit, but it will feel like 104,” says the weather man. And I smile. That is my world. He is describing me. It’s kind of a faulty default. My act...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[“Did God Save Us To Let Us Starve?”]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/did-god-save-us-to-let-us-starve/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:30:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“Did God save us to let us starve?” I may not have said it quite like the complaining Old Testament Israelites are recorded after their exodus from Egypt, but I may have had that very sam...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Does God See Us Where We Are?]]></title>
      <link>https://sylviaschroeder.com/does-god-see-us-where-we-are/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:30:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“I don’t know where we’re at,” Phil’s dad used to say from the front seat of his handicapped van. In his later days my father-in-law, sweet and intelligent seemed to live in an anxious st...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Hold On To Great Treasure]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It had been an overlap day, when one commitment led to another with hardly a breath in between. Three grandsons sped through their home kitchen where I tried to do some cleaning up after...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:30:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[There is a whole lot of unseen upkeep in life. Changing sheets, mowing lawn, washing laundry, servicing the car, making meals, planning groceries, unplugging drains, buying supplies, fixi...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Is Your Calling?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:30:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A friend recently phoned me and began our conversation with, “Are you bored now that you are retired?” My four children are in various throes of raising our grandchildren. I watch them an...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Greatest of All Miracles]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:30:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[You know the type, right? The one who must correct every statement another makes. Someone who can wax eloquent on just about everything, and does. That person. The one who knows it all. T...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is This Too Trivial For God?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:30:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Sunshine bright with glory bathed our tiny backyard. Blue sky beckoned. Winter months had been long for our four-year-old son, and he was ready for play. “If you need me, I’ll call you,”...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Does It Mean to be Found?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:30:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I’m not good with directions. I never could find where we were on that big paper Rand McNally map, so when the first GPS came out, I considered it to be a marriage saver. Until I realized...]]></description>
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