Brenda’s Blog – Weekly Devotions, Reflections, and Prayer Practices
You are invited to experience renewal, invigoration, and transformation in your spiritual life as Brenda guides you through scripture, stories, reflections, practices, and prayers in her occasional blog. Brenda began blogging in 2016 as a way of sharing her passion for spiritual formation through words and guided prayer. The full library of her blog posts are here, and you can sign up to receive the occasional blog in your email.
Where Are You?
When my siblings and I were young and visited Grandma and Grandpa’s house we often played the game Hot and Cold. One of us hid an object while the others hid our eyes. When we started to find the hidden object, we were given clues. The Hider would tell us if we were...
Unleashing Love
Cruel Intentions are not just the name of a movie, but it seems to me that cruel intentions have become a prominent mode of interaction with others. Mental health is a frequent topic of discussion and more people than ever are living in a medicated state just to cope....
Shared Presence
I have heard it said that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Does absence really cause us to gain deeper affection for others? How does absence come in relationships? Do we sometime intentionally make distance in our relationship so that there is greater absence?...
A Light for the World
The older I get, the more time it takes for my eyes to adjust to darkness. It takes time to notice that even in the darkness light filters through for vision to be restored. Today we celebrate the dawning of God’s light shining through the darkness. We remember the...
Are You READY? (The Time is NOW!)
How do you prepare for things? Are you an over-packer? Do you make plans and sometimes even a plan B or C, just in case? Or maybe you are always ready to be spontaneous and jump right into adventure, action, or help with whatever is needed. Sometimes we prepare...
Boundless Compassion
What is your outlook on life? Are you have ½ full kind of person with plenty of positivity even through the most difficult moments of life? Or maybe you are a ½ empty kind of person that gets stuck dwelling on the “what if”, and the negative potentials of life? A...