Change happens to everyone. Lately, I’ve been feeling like my life is a set of dominoes set side-by-side in a long line of twisting and…
View More Applications RequestedAuthor: Lynnette Goebel
Lynnette is the Director of Operations at RHMA Headquarters in Morton, Illinois. She has attended the same small-town church for most of her life. She adores her pastor’s wife.
Word of the Year
In years past my girls and I would pick a word to symbolize what we wanted the new year to bring or a habit we…
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You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? Psalm 56:8 Tears. Every person serving…
View More TearsSmall Things Make a Big Impact
True to form, the year 2022 came in with an overwhelming rush of tasks to do, people with heartaches, and weariness from the holidays. In…
View More Small Things Make a Big ImpactAsking for Help Is a Sign of Strength
Sometimes, it is hard to ask for help. Most people, men and women, have the attitude that to ask for help from others is a…
View More Asking for Help Is a Sign of StrengthA Challenge for 2022
In my Christmas newsletter I shared that I have never created a bucket list. The Bucket List is a term that began in 2007 by…
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“And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” Luke 1:38 “It was not a silent…
View More Labor of LoveOn Being a Church Lady
In a culture that demands formal teaching – from college degrees to seminar certificates – we often lose sight of the opportunities for informal teaching.…
View More On Being a Church LadyPruning the Dead Branches
At a plant sale many years ago, I bought a stick for $2.00. The little tag on it said that it was a redbud tree.…
View More Pruning the Dead BranchesNo Superstars in the Boat
Several years ago, I read the book The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. An exceptional book, it describes how “with a team…
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