Brenda’s Blog – Occasional 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.
Missed Opportunity or Miraculous Moment?
Have you ever missed an opportunity that you wish you could get back? It could be anything from the littlest of things, like not noticing the slight intonation within a conversation to the bigger issues around love, loss, job, or...
Discover Your Passion Story
What is your story? Stories are amazing. Each one of us has a story. The facts and activities of our lives are all different. Yet there are themes that run through the story of each life that is similar such as happiness, joy, delight, surprise, illness, sorrow,...
A Lens for Life
During seminary I received my first pair of reading glasses. My eyes literally grew tired of trying to read the small print of commentaries. That first pair of glasses gave me new lens through which to see the printed word. Everything became clearer. Today, I...
Ora Et Labora
Work has such potential of becoming drudgery. Often work is a means to and end. It is a necessary thing for survival. Work provides for food, shelter, and leisure activities. A book I remember reading is entitled Working Ourselves to Death by Dianne Fassel.[1] She...
Hidden Treasures
Finding hidden objects can be a fun game. As a child, with my siblings and cousins, frequently we gathered at my grandparent’s parsonage. A favorite game was hiding an object for others to seek. The one that hid the object gave hints to the others with the words “hot”...
Bless You!
Bless you, is much more than an automatic response when someone sneezes. To bless another person is one of the most important things that we can ever do. When we bless another, we are stating that we see the goodness of God’s presence within them. Blessing encourages...