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.
Straight Talking Love
Life is messy! I am not just talking about when the ingredients for making homemade cookies from scratch with grandchildren get flour, sugar, and even raw eggs are scattered over the countertop. Life is messy with the human complexities of emotions, abilities, and our...
Choose an Intentional Life
Choice is a powerful skill. To be intentional with our choices is vital for a life. Intention guides the choices we make in love and faith. Some of our choices give us life, other choices take our energy away. Some people have been known to choose to not make a choice...
An Adventure for Life
What is the most adventurous thing of your life? Could it be traveling to exotic places? Perhaps a daring relationship you have loved living. Maybe the most adventurous thing of life has been a storm, a season filled with courage and surprise, or maybe it is reading a...
A Teachable Spirit
“Teach me to pray.” That was what I prayed over and over on my drive from Rhode Island to Boston my first day of seminary. I thought to myself, “If I was really going to do this ministry thing, then I truly did want to learn how to pray.” A teachable spirit is of...
Live Creatively!
I love children. Before I was ordained many years ago, I taught preschool. Young children offer such a gift. Their enthusiasm for life is most often unfretted. Children, especially preschool children, see the world and say “I WILL, I CAN.” But somewhere along the...
The Life of Freedom
I have a question for you. I don’t mean to pry with this question. And the question may be difficult for you. Here goes. How hard is it to love yourself? Often it seems that we are hardest on ourselves. We struggle to let go of the misspoken word that harmed another...