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.
The Beauty of Christ
The brilliant style of the French Impressionist painter captivates the senses. The colors pop! Each color is beautiful on its own. Yet there is a tender sweetness as the colors of yellows, golds, orange, blues, greens, and white melt into one another. When they are...
How Long O God?!
It is a phrase often cried out in breathless desire. Children on a long and weary car ride cry out “Are we there yet? How long do we have to go?” When we are awaiting an important celebration event and can barely contain our excitement we ask, “What time is it? How...
Trouble and Trust
Troubles run deep and are very numerous within humanity. I wonder, do difficult intense moments of life lead us toward the scared presence of God or away from God. Whether it is personal trouble which plague us, systemic attitudes of hate, fear, or gun violence, we...
An Unobscured Identity
I often stood at that corner. When my dog and I walked we stopped at the corner. As I stood at the corner I gazed at the magnificent beauty of the tree. Through windstorms, changing of seasons, and the occasional lightning strike the tree’s outward appearance...
Love in Action
It sounds easy enough on the surface, to live love in action through our daily lives. We do love others, right? Yet, I still have wonders. Why is child abuse prolific around the world, if we see Christ in the other? How do politics, finance, or social injustice become...
How Do You Hear?
“How do you hear?” That was the question my ten-year-old granddaughter asked me. “Amma,” she said, “how do you hear the voice of God?” The follow up question, “Have you ever heard God’s voice?” What marvelous questions! How many of us wonder these very same questions?...