Rigid and silent, the centurion endured the merciless sun which bore down on the crowd and the crosses at Golgotha. From two of the three crosses, screams of...
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Stories: fictional, historical, biographical. Devotional thoughts. Writing tips. Helps for home and hearth.
~ Holly Bebernitz
Sundays—Sacred
Devotional thoughts, posted for the 31 Days of Blogging challenge.
Response to Distress
David and Goliath is one of the first stories children learn in Sunday School. David, using a well-aimed stone, felled the giant. As he stood over Goliath,...
Burdens: Bear or Bare?
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Henry David Thoreau. “Desperation” can range from personal loss to fear of failure to performing below...
Remarkable Martha
I speak of Martha of Bethany, sister of Lazarus, sister of Mary. If you are thinking, Wait. Don't you mean 'Remarkable Mary'?...I invite you to read further....
The Hidden Illness
Depression has many causes and afflicts everyone sometimes. Victory is available, but it does not always arrive overnight. William Cowper, author of “There is...
The Vanishing Button
A button had been missing from Annabelle’s favorite jeans for over two weeks. It was no big deal...really. She always wore her shirt on the outside. But she...
If You Want To Be Free, Forgive
Annabelle was awake long before the alarm went off. She couldn’t remember the last time she had slept through an entire night without jolting awake with...
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.
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