Inspiration Wednesday - Meet Rhonda Hale Bedee

It's inspiration Wednesday! Meet Rhonda Hale Bedee. She hails from my East Texas stomping grounds. Hey Rhonda! Tell us a little about yourself: you, your family, where you live.

      I’m a follower of Jesus by choice. I married my David 32 years ago; we’ve raised three children to adulthood and marriage in a suburb north of Houston named Klein. Always there are challenges and blessings; I’m chasing down and adding those lift-uppables to my list every day in an effort to make sure I REMEMBER the good stuff. I still like to be called Mama by my grown-up kids.

     I think you've coined a phrase! Lift-uppables, love it! I like to be called Mom by my grown kids as well. What is your passion, business, hobbies?


      I’m  a spelling specialist, retired homeschooler, seminar instructor, plus part-time calligraphist and clarinetist. Oh, and proofreader! Wise-Spelling. SWR-TexasTrainers.net. I like poor forgotten little semicolons. New passion is teaching an internationals class at my church.

      I'd forgotten we had homeschooling in common. I may be looking for a proofreader in the near future. How cool to teach an internationals class! Where do you see yourself in five years?

     Training new spelling specialists, training more teachers in the forgotten art of spelling instruction in elementary and grammar schools, because there is such a dire need. My husband and I are trusting God to restore a difficult severed relationship with one of our sons and his wife. I hope to be a grandmother and enjoy lots of books and poems with my grandchildren.

     Worthy goals. Praying now with you for that severed relationship. Reading with the grands is the best, I know! What are you currently reading?

      Bible, back to Genesis! Keto for Women by Leanne Vogel. Got a goal to read a poem aloud daily in 2020. I need some good fiction in my life, such as something by Jody Day! Using Crayola Twistables wax pencils to color-code my reading, especially Bible, helps me FOCUS.

     Aw, thanks for the shout out. I need to check out those pencils! Reading aloud is a good practice, one I need to implement for fun and inspiration, not just for checking out what I've just written, lol. If you could have the world stage for five minutes, what would be your message to the world?

      Learn to spell, learn to read your language, read the Bible, follow Jesus – all with a great attention-getting lead-in that I am not taking time to write at the moment. I will probably be caught by surprise and wish I had.


      I wish you had! Great message. Anything else? Anything else you’d like to say?

      People can find something new in God’s word every single time they read the words…if they WILL. Something new learned last year: when I see the words “God remembered” in my Bible reading, I remember that its Hebrew meaning indicates “God is taking ACTION on something He already promised.

   I've always lived somewhere between I-10 and I-20: small town, small cities, suburbs, but always in East Texas. I capitalize it like it’s another state; it kinda is. A fun movie quote describes it as living “behind the Pine Curtain.”

       THANK YOU, Jody! This was fun to step back and take a look at myself from your angle.

     Rhonda Bedee, Klein, Texas – and yes, there is a KHS down the road from me. I feel right at home. There’s also lots of pine trees and even Texas State Forest #2 nearby. You know State Forest #1 is in Kirbyville.

      What a great interview! No, thank you for stopping by and sharing your life with us. It would be a great asset at KHS to have you. I think I read recently that our East Texas area is State Forest #1. I've gone from "behind the Pine Curtain' to "west of the Pecos."

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