One of the hard things about married life has been adjusting to the fact that holiday traditions – especially Christmas ones – will never be the same again. I will never get to go back to the Christmas Days I enjoyed growing up. I don’t get cozy new jammies and a book from my parents […]
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“It Just Doesn’t Feel Like Christmas!”
Posted in Holidays, Inspiration, Motherhood, Musings, Preaching to Myself, Toddler Life on December 24, 2014 | 10 Comments »
Confessions of a Pathetic Weakling – God’s Grace at the End of my Rope
Posted in Christian Living, Encouragement, Inspiration, Motherhood, My Life, Preaching to Myself on November 22, 2014 | 4 Comments »
One day a couple of months ago, if you had walked into my home in the mid-morning, you would have found this scene: Mom dozing off on the couch, sick and dizzy with some unexplainable bug on top of my morning sickness. Toddlers breaking into the upstairs bathroom. Baby woken in the next room by […]
What Are You Afraid Of?
Posted in Christian Living, Encouragement, My Life, Preaching to Myself on October 25, 2014 | 6 Comments »
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott One day a voice entered my imagination from nowhere. It was kind, but firmly challenging. “What are you afraid of?” it said. I was sure it was supposed to be from some scene in my books, […]
Have We Forgotten the Monsters?
Posted in Christian Living, Motherhood, Preaching to Myself, Rants, Speculative Fiction on September 4, 2014 | 11 Comments »
My three year old son is nervous about monsters. They frequently feature in the toddler TV shows he watches – not that real monsters are in the stories, but the characters often think there are monsters but are proven wrong. So he knows they’re not real! They aren’t even real in the shows he watches. […]
The Backwards Proverbs 31 Woman
Posted in Christian Living, For Your Amusement, Inspiration, Motherhood, Preaching to Myself, Scripture on August 14, 2014 | 4 Comments »
Anyone can find an inferior wife. Her worth is no more than common pebbles. The heart of her husband cannot trust or confide in her, and he suffers constant loss. She does him evil, and not good, all the days of her life. She avoids finding ways to be industrious, and grumbles when she is […]
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Bethany A. Jennings is a YA speculative fiction and poetry author, a freelance editor, and a lover of artisan sandwiches. Born in SoCal, with a heart and soul raised in many different worlds, she now lives happily in New England with her husband, four children, zero pets, and a large and growing collection of tiny houseplants. She is a firm believer in the power of words to reach hurting hearts, uplift the weary, and pierce the darkness.
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