Beginning with the sermon I heard last Sunday and a number of conversations I have had this week, I became convinced this is a message I needed to share...
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Stories: fictional, historical, biographical. Devotional thoughts. Writing tips. Helps for home and hearth.
~ Holly Bebernitz
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Rejoice
Some of you may be familiar with the practice of selecting a “life verse,” by which you intend to live, or which characterizes your life at a certain point in...
Tribute to My Mother
My mother, Virginia Arends, 92, went peacefully to Heaven on Monday, June 21, 2021. This is the eulogy I delivered at her funeral. If you knew my mother well,...
Pay Attention
Time change. Any way you look at it, it’s a bother, upsetting everyone’s rhythm, and taking days to get used to. And then there’s the re-setting all your...
Forward & Foreword
Those of you who have been with me on this journey from the beginning will remember that I started blogging in response to a challenge to Blog 31 Days. I...
Open Arms, Open Hearts
Purchased by the infamous pirate Calico Jack Rackham in 1719, the Peregrine Inn, on the weather-beaten North Carolina coast, is a haven for the wanderer....
Thoughts on Parenthood
1) Acknowledge your children are not “you” and they are not “each other.” This was my hardest learned lesson. I was an only child and thus had no experience...
How to Know You Are Grown Up
I find myself in the inevitable position of acknowledging my grandchildren are "not so small" as they used to be. The last time we had one of our famous...
How to Find Rest
In Hebrews 3 and 4, God speaks of His children “labouring” to enter into His rest. He uses as His example of “unrest” the children of Israel who, because of unbelief (in spite of having seen the Red Sea part) could not enter into the rest God had promised them.
Mrs. B’s Book and Film Lists
Mrs. B’s Annotated Book List Please note: This is certainly not a comprehensive list of the editor’s favorites, but is merely, as the title suggests, an...
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.
