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Bernice

Bernice's Thoughts on Gentle Mothering

What gentle mothering means to me is always being there for my children, and responding to their every need. I feel it is up to me to instill the right morals my children will grow up with and that starts by showing them respect, trust, and love. I feel as a mother you can never love your children "too much." They need the everyday reassurance that I am there.

I feel that gentle mothering is so important because the home life they start out with is what they'll carry with them, that's why children thier mommy's are the best, because a mother will exhaust herself for her children and do it with a merry heart.

I feel that God wants me to parent this way because this is the way he set for people to raise their children and the Bible is the guide.

Bernice's Testimony

I was always told there was a God but I never had the honor of having a personal relationship with him. It was April of 1996, my life was really rough, I was going through a very difficult relationship that took me to the end of my string. I felt that if I died I'd be better off. One night I had taken my little brother to the store (the whole while driving thinking to myself how much I didn't want to take him) on the way we were hit by someone who had ran a red light, I had no time to react, all I knew was that we were going to crash. I told my brother to hold on and then my eyes opened only to see everything that was going on in the car and everywhere around. I was above in a whiteish fog, looking down. I had always heard that people say when you die you see a white light or some sort of tunnel, I didn't see any white light or any tunnel, I could see my brother crying in pain and myself passed out at the sterring wheel, and at that moment I asked Jesus to bring me back and I would change my life around. I shook my head and I was there bleeding but very happy to be alive. From that moment on I knew God had saved me. A few weeks later at a friend's church, I accepted Christ as my lord and Saviour and the next year I was baptised.