Rhonda Franz

editor • writer • MA.Ed | nonprofit/health/medical space | enthusiast | believer | humor-lover | singer/auxiliary percussion | eclectic tweets

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Being a parent means never having to push an elevator button.

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@BethMooreLPM Lord have mercy. What’s happened now?

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@drewdyck Wait. Is this in the U.S.? Because many other places/cultures use multiple names.

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@thescottbarber Oh, heaven help us with the misuse of Scripture.

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I don’t really care about football, but does the Big Ten have writers? Editors? Graphic designers?

[Big Ten Conference @bigten]

A statement regarding the results of tonight's game between Michigan and Western Michigan.

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@drewdyck But that “Give” button is loud and proud.

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@courtneyellis Not keeping your dog on a leash in places where it is required/needed.

Taking a phone call while in a meeting, and staying in the meeting. (Really, taking a phone call while in a group of people anywhere — including outside/at sport events — and not stepping away.)

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@drewdyck Grace, we need to know you’re OK.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

Ministry leaders or pastors, I’d strongly caution you against making loyalty to you or to your organization a core value. It promotes a sick environment in a myriad of ways. A few:

Employees feel like they need to agree with us when actually our idea is not a good idea.

Employees whom God is directing elsewhere feel tremendous dread in leaving because we will likely receive it as disloyalty instead of what it really is: a disciple of Jesus doing exactly what a disciple is supposed to do.

Why, after all, would we want an employee to stay whom God has called to leave?? Our place is to bless them in their going as well as in their coming. From time to time I see leaders talk about people who started with them not staying with them as if they owed them that. They don’t. It’s not disloyalty. It’s true discipleship. We want our people to follow Jesus.

People and organizations where loyalty to leader is a core value also fear burning the bridge when they leave because we are too immature and insecure to not be offended and wounded (or angered!) by their departure.

Lastly and perhaps most chilling of all, loyalty to a leader or organization fosters secret-keeping. (“We can’t let that go public because it will destroy the church! Think of the church!” The ultimate spiritual manipulation. No, what will destroy the church is keeping a sick secret.)

Nothing will infect and implode a whole organization like a culture of secret-keeping.

Sure, we hope employees have integrity to not gossip about things we as their employers or leaders share in earnest from our private lives. I talk openly with my coworkers just as they do about personal challenges and experiences and needs for prayer. But there’s a big difference between hoping for privacy and demanding secrecy.

What I hope for and try to encourage in my employees is loyalty to Jesus. I know myself too well. I know my frailties, flaws and faults too intimately. I’ve told them in staff meetings that when their “loyalty” to me is contrary to their loyalty to Jesus, for crying out loud, go with Jesus! Even if it means going with him out the door. Even if I’m sad when they leave, it’s just because I’ll miss them. Not because they’ve done a single wrong. They’ve done exactly the right thing. They’ve gone with Jesus and will have my unqualified blessing.

I’m thinking a lot about these kinds of things as we at LPM take active steps toward major downsizing next late Spring. Steps that will include selling the building and cutting back to a skeletal staff of only a few. I’m thinking so much about how blessed I’ve been to work with women who were devoted to Jesus. Who loved him exceedingly more than they loved me, their other coworkers and the organization. Their greatest gift to me has undoubtedly been their deep devotion to Jesus.

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@TheCinesthetic

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@KSPrior Oh, look forward to reading this.

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@stephenaltrogge It’s OK to have done both. It’s not too late.

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Whoa. What a story of pain and perseverance. @zimmerman082

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Jabbing pain and constant malaise followed him for years, but regular blood tests always came back normal — until one day a specialist thought to ask something new. https://t.co/5Vc3KqDSKT

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@dadmann_walking Yeah

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@courtneyellis While also saying they didn’t eat all the berries.

[Emily S. Bremer @emilysbremer]

The best way to find typos is to reread the draft you’ve already circulated.

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Also the icon should be a right-facing arrow and the location should be on the left above the email toolbar.

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Can we please decide once and for all on a standardized “send” icon for email and a standardized place to put the icon and then every email provider uses that same location and it CHANGES NEVER WITH ANY FUTURE UPDATES?

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Can we please decide once and for all on a standardized “send” icon for email and a standardized place to put the icon and then every email provider uses that same location and it CHANGES NEVER WITH ANY FUTURE UPDATES?

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At our house: garland behind the bed.

[Simon Holland @simoncholland]

One Christmas tradition we have is finding a roll of wrapping paper leaning behind the bedroom door at the end of March.

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@typesfast Sharpie marker.

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@PrestonWDHS @CoachMullinsPhD @Coach_Nick87 Love the group apps with coaches/teams/other parents.