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 blog each week in your email.
Onward
Have you ever felt like you wanted to give up? As I prayed with this question, a memory floated up from a long time ago. I remembered an activity from our youth group when I was growing up. It was an imaginative story in which all the teens had to imagine going single...
The Path of Discovery
Body language often speaks volumes over our words! Have you ever known anyone that offered a begrudging hug to someone? Sometimes this happens out of embarrassment. My 4-year-old grandson get so embarrassed he slides up to you backwards and lets you hug him from...
A Living Legacy of Love
I love stories. Please hear me with that phrase. I do not mean embellishment or lies. I love well plotted true or imagined stories. Stories that have creativity, imagination, joy, slight intrigue, and ones that honor all folks. I have read books all my life. I have...
Full to Overflowing
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...
An Undivided Heart
There are so many things that may cause our heart to be divided. We see something shiny that looks attractive to us, or is intriguing and our attention is drawn to the thing, person, or circumstance. It does not even need to be things in the outside world that draws...
Life in the Spirit
What is the greatest influence in your life? I remember there was a time when I was a single parent of two young teenagers and I found myself being influenced by TV! Full House dad, Danny Tanner, always said, hug and make up! What influences your decision making? Do...