Philip Pirrip, orphaned, lived with his sister and her husband, Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith. Pip was visiting his parents’ graves, when an escaped...
Managing Expectations
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Everybody Loves Moses III
The children of Israel reached the Red Sea, trapped with the army of Pharaoh approaching. Exodus 14--The Red Sea crossing recounts the best known example of...
Right Word, Right Time
Jefferson Smith was an unlikely senator. A Boy Ranger leader, judged to be too naïve to be politically savvy, he was summoned to Washington D.C. to fill a...
The Fruit of the Spirit–Longsuffering
The term “longsuffering” has gone out of fashion for the most part. The two best known Scriptural references, which mention the principle—Galatians 5:22, as...
The Elusive Culprit II
This is a continuation of the story of my mother’s dementia. I will reiterate: this is an unpleasant account of decline, and of necessity will include...
The Problem of Anger
When I googled the topic of today’s discussion—Anger—I found also, in addition to definitions, stories, and assorted appropriate quotations, a number of...
Meeting of Friends VII
I was surrounded. Back to the wall. Well, to the window. The table was littered with fruitcake, cookies, coffee cups, plates, and napkins; the guests in...
Managing Obstacles
Most people hate change. We arrange our lives, our schedules, our family’s schedules and hope we can keep moving, unimpeded, toward our goals, carrying out...
Everybody Loves Moses II
Everybody Loves Moses II Last week, we observed how God preserved Moses’ life by sending him to the Pharaoh’s own house to be brought up, preparing Moses to...
Stand Up, Speak Up, Shut Up
Way back when I taught speech, I used the following illustration every semester: A plumber wrote to the National Bureau of Standards saying he had...
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.
