Mother’s Day is coming soon. My girls are grown with families of their own, living hundreds of miles away. It’s so easy to think they…
View More Feeling Useful in a PandemicAuthor: Lynnette Goebel
Prayer for My Pastor’s Wife
Almighty God, Heavenly Father, How good it is to remember and rest in the fact that You are all powerful, all knowing, and everywhere present…
View More Prayer for My Pastor’s WifeA Lesson from Hide and Seek
I grew up in a small house with lots of land. My grandparents lived next door and Grampa farmed, gardened, raised chickens and pigeons, and…
View More A Lesson from Hide and SeekIndescribable God
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9 Turn on the news these days, or read social media, and…
View More Indescribable GodFighting Within the Family of God
Music is a beautiful language which speaks to our souls. Words on the wings of music often break through and affect me much deeper than…
View More Fighting Within the Family of GodEveryday Friends
I’ve been reading the biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the Anne of Green Gables series. If you haven’t read the series (which I…
View More Everyday FriendsGod’s Gift of Music
I’ve been playing the piano for most of my life. Way before I could reach the pedals, my fingers loved to press the keys, bringing…
View More God’s Gift of MusicSeeing 2020 Through God’s Eyes
My daughter, as a student and as a teacher, has always loved the start of a new school year. New, clean pages in notebooks. A…
View More Seeing 2020 Through God’s EyesFor Crying Out Loud
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven . . . a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a…
View More For Crying Out LoudThoughtful Gifts
Ugly sweaters, white elephant gifts – our creative culture has figured out a way to make the worst gifts useable. Not valuable. Useable. Each of…
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