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.
Upheld by Love
What is it like for you to be upheld by love? How do our communities, nations, and all of creation experience being upheld by God's love? Is it like a funny cartoon characterization of a person holding his or her arms in the air over the head? And with each frame of...
The Three Cs
What are the three Cs? Covenant compassion in community is the three Cs of faith formation. Covenant is nearly a foreign word for us in our culture. We are much more prone to legalities. We find ourselves comparing and evaluating the other. Almost unconsciously we...
A Community Call to Prayer
It is time! Today we are called to self-examination. We are invited to look within and notice our habits, our mannerisms, our motivations, and the ways which we have or have not lived Christ-love in relationship with others. The invitation to the Lenten spiritual...
A Luminous Life
How does your life glow with the gentleness of God’s presence? In my book Spiritual Direction and the Metamorphosis of Church, I write about a luminous life. Individuals and congregations may through consistent practice of the tools of spiritual direction become...
Heart Listening
How do you hear the unfolding story of God in your life, in your community, and even in this moment of restrictive pandemic? Listening to God’s heart song is unique for each of us. Our personality and psychological make up influence how we discern God’s Word singing...
A Eucharistic Life
How does one live a eucharistic life? What is a eucharistic life? “The Greek word eucharistia, meaning 'thanksgiving. ' This term originated in the 1st or 2nd century A.D. as early Christians commemorated Christ's Last Supper with thanksgiving.”[1] When we share the...