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.
Standing on Holy Ground
Ah, the beauty of going barefoot. Standing on holy ground feeling the grass between your toes, what joy. Or imagine being at the beach. Where the cool sand shifts under your weight as it squish between your barefoot toes while the gentle waves lap on your feet. Each...
Turn our Mourning into Dancing
I love ballroom dancing! My favorite is the waltz. When we fly around the floor and work in tandem my spirit soars with liberated freedom. Freedom from the overload of work that tries regularly to creep up on me. Freedom to release inhibitions and let me be my best...
The 3 “Rs” of Trust
I think the letter “R” in trust should be a red letter. When we can live into trust of God, we find ourselves being called to Radically trust, take Risks, and the result of these first two “Rs” is an even greater Resilient trust of God. Life Circumstance can very...
Covenant Renewal
When I was a parish pastor, nearly every January the worship leaders and I led a Wesleyan Covenant Renewal service. Through that worship celebration we examined our ways of living, offered repentance, confirmed God’s promises, and renewed our heart’s pledge to live in...
More than Just the Mind
We are more than just our mind. Yet human beings tend to be neck up people. We are wonderful thinkers, strategists, and mental pray-ers. However, God has created human beings with the marvelous gift of an entire body. As I wrote in my devotional book The Advent of...
Mysterious Movements
Do you like a good mystery? Mysteries engage the mind as we discern “Whodunit?” This engagement takes many forms. Some of us become afraid and pull the covers up so that we can only peek out over the top. Others, sit on the edge of their seat anxiously awaiting...