U—Utensil. Yes, you are a tool…a vessel… in God’s hands. Always consider you are His hands in the life of your family. II Corinthians 4:7. But we have this...
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ABC’s of Motherhood [U-Z]
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~ Holly Bebernitz
Mondays—Motherhood
Meditations on motherhood, including “grand-motherhood”, posted for the 31 Days of Blogging challenge.
ABC’s of Motherhood [H-T]
N—Nester. It’s up to you to provide a safe haven for your family. Well-ordered, but not rigid. Clean, but comfortable. The home is made for the family—not the...
ABC’s of Motherhood [H-M]
H—Historian. Not only your nation’s history or the world’s or your faith’s, but also your own and that of your family. Deuteronomy 4:10. Specially the day...
ABC’s of Motherhood [A-G]
This is the first of a four-part series on the roles of mothers and accompanying verses to help. Fathers, grandparents, mentors of every description are...
The Product of Balance
I have been a bike rider for as long as I can remember. I’ve always had a bike parked in my garage, even after I married and had children, and grew older. At...
The Hope of a Tree
Plants and the lessons we learn from them appear from Genesis 1:12 where “the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree...
In Praise of the Sippy Cup
In the decades between my initiation to motherhood and promotion to grand-motherhood, innovations galore have made childcare easier. For example, my firstborn...
Grandmother Wilson’s Prayer
Everyone has eight great-grandparents. I met only one of mine: Ollie Rigdon Wilson, my maternal father's mother. I have her wedding photo—a beautiful, demure...
Help Me Remember
On a blustery January morning, when my firstborn Aaron (now 40) was six years old, I did him the “favor” of warming his coat (a “puffy” nylon jacket) by...
Bee Write With You
Be right with you. A promise shouted across the room or whispered into the phone when the person whose attention you want is occupied with someone else or...
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.
