Maybelle rose from her chair and joined the congregation at the kitchen sink. She pulled open the silverware drawer and took out a knife. By then Bridey,...
Meeting of Friends V
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Manager Wanted
Mondays’ topic during July is “Managing.” We begin with the most daunting challenge: Managing Self. If, like me, you talk to yourself, let me put your mind at...
Right Place, Right Time
Much of the study of history, whether biblical or not, focuses on “great men and great deeds.” There are, however, unnumbered multitudes of common ordinary...
How the Presidents Spoke
This month’s Saturday blogs will discuss the topic of “Speaking.” And in honor of July 4th, we will begin with “How the Presidents Spoke.” November 1863...
Fruit of the Spirit–Love
The book of Galatians is one many believers call a favorite. Its themes of “standing fast in the liberty in which Christ has made us free” [Galatians 5:1] and...
David Brainerd
Born in 1718 to a devout Puritan family in Haddam, Connecticut, David Brainerd was orphaned at the age of 14. At twenty-one, swept up by the Great Awakening,...
Climb Every Mole Hill
I grew up in a safe neighborhood in a small town during the 1960’s when long summer days were best spent outside. Our house was on a “Circle,” which today...
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Isaac Newton is credited with saying: “If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” He apparently adapted this idea from...
Meeting of Friends IV
By this point, I was feeling more than a little put out. I loved these ladies. I’d had nothing but positive experiences with each of them, but I was...
As Good As New
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.” You’ve probably heard this motto (credited to President Calvin Coolidge) at least once…most likely from a...
Native Texan Holly Bebernitz moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1967. After thirty years of teaching speech, English, and history on the secondary and college levels, she retired from classroom teaching to become a full-time grandmother. The change in schedule allowed the time needed to complete the novel she had begun writing in 1998. When Trevorode the Defender was published in March 2013, the author realized the story of the Magnolia Arms was not yet complete.
