Author: Lynnette Goebel

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…

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven . . . a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a…

Ugly sweaters, white elephant gifts – our creative culture has figured out a way to make the worst gifts useable. Not valuable. Useable.  Each of…

Each summer for the last thirty-seven years I’ve had the privilege of serving a week or two at a girls’ camp in Illinois. While fun,…

Have you ever noticed how many times trees are mentioned in the Bible? BibleGateway brings up 269 references for the word tree. (Don’t worry. I’ll…

Hebrews 10:23-25 “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.  And let us consider how to stir up one…

Do you want to be more compassionate? Look at the list of synonyms for this word: pitying, sympathetic, empathetic, understanding, caring, concerned, solicitous, sensitive, tenderhearted, softhearted, warmhearted, warm, loving, tender, gentle, merciful, lenient, tolerant, considerate, thoughtful, kind, kindly, kindhearted, humanitarian, humane, charitable, benevolent,  good-natured, well disposed, big-hearted My definition includes giving…

Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord;     his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers,     as…

Pot Luck /ˌpätˈlək/ noun -used in reference to a situation in which one must take a chance that whatever is available will prove to be…