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.
Becoming a New Creation
So Many losses! Sometimes it seems as if human life is filled with one loss after another. Loss of security in the family as a young child goes off to school for the first time. Loss of friends, loss of job, loss of dreams – and the list could go on. As life twists...
Resurrection Blessings
It has been over 30 years and I still can recite the poem I wrote that day. “My Blue Pen” was the name of the poem. I wrote it for a workshop that I attended. The workshop was on Celtic Spirituality. That day my heart was smitten with the earthy spirituality of the...
Sacred Story
Stories are amazing. Each one of us has a unique story. The facts and activities of our lives are all different. Yet there are themes that run through our story that are similar to the sacred story of others. We all have experienced happiness, joy, delight, surprise,...
The Descending Way
The descending way seems contrary to almost everything that we do in this life. If you want a better job, put in the work. If you want recognition, then make sure you do a unique accomplishment. Work hard at school, get good grades; open possibilities and...
A Light Shining in the Darkness
Have you ever been afraid of the dark? Do you know anyone who is or has been afraid of the dark? My grandchildren when they were little, liked to sleep with nightlights on. Things became scary in the dark. What is it about the dimly lit room - why are people afraid in...
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Joy, Junk, and Jesus[1]
To truly know Jesus from the interior of our spiritual heart is to live great joy. It is our inward posture of Christlikeness which reveals our heart’s deepest abiding love. It is this deep abiding love which creates within us a foundation of joy. This deep-hearted...