Brenda Rodgers

Author: Brenda Rodgers

  • The One Year No Dating Challenge {An Update}

    The One Year No Dating Challenge {An Update}

    This is a real, very honest post about The One Year No Dating Challenge. I have failed you as readers and let you down tremendously regarding this challenge, and I am sorry.

    As I’ve mentioned so many times I get more emails about this challenge than anything else. At the beginning of the year I started writing a study to help you through the challenge, and I took about eight women through the study I wrote during the months of January through March. My intention was to continue writing it through the rest of the year and then offer it on the blog.

    The One Year No Dating Challenge 2015 4 (more…)

  • Five Years Ago There Was a Heart Transplant

    I’ll never forget reading the statistics of life expectancy one year, five years, and ten years out from a heart transplant. My mind couldn’t get to October being here much less five years down the road.

    And here we are.

    It’s been five years since my husband’s heart transplant. You can read the whole story here, but for an up-to-date, intimate family look at life then and now, here’s a little video I made.

    John is healthy and doing very well. We’re expecting our second baby girl in October. To God be the glory. He gets every ounce of the honor. We are so grateful for a gift we don’t deserve, and we’re praising His holy name.

    John’s Heart Transplant :: A Look Back from Triple Braided on Vimeo.

  • Being Bold and Standing Up Against Abortion

    Last Tuesday morning I turned the corner onto the street leading to our local library to take my toddler to storytime, and this is what greeted me.

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    It caught me so off guard that I did a quick U-turn in the middle of the street to go back and make sure I saw what I think I saw. That’s when I stopped to take this picture.

    Twenty-seven weeks pregnant myself, I literally started hyperventalating. My whole body shook, I gripped the steering wheel, I couldn’t breathe, and tears barreled down my face. “Oh, Jesus! Oh, Jesus! Come today.” That’s all I could say. (more…)

  • Thoughts on Turning 39 and Ending a Decade

    I’m assuming it’s because I’m seven months pregnant with a toddler at my feet that I’m nostalgic about turning 39 this year. After all, isn’t that supposed to wait until you’re 40?

    But here I am a now 39-year-old woman living a 28-year-old’s life, and I can’t help but sit in disbelief that I’m entering the last year of my 30’s.

    My adult life has turned out nothing like I thought it would.

    Thoughts on Turning 39 and Ending a Decade (more…)

  • When It’s Your Miscarried Baby’s Due Date

    Five years ago my husband was on the waiting list to receive a donor heart for a heart transplant. As days went by with no donor match, he got sicker. Eventually he ended up waiting in the hospital. This is when he got a staph infection and was put on life support.

    “He needs to receive a donor heart within the week”, the doctors told me. “Ecmo is a short-term solution.”

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  • Do You Think a Boyfriend Will “Complete” You?

    Most of us know the couple names, ‘Brangelina,’ ‘Kimye’, ‘Bennifer’. Without one another they just do not seem complete. The media defines these couples as one being. The Bible defines marriage as coming together as one, however, what happens when the couple’s name becomes the individual’s identity? What happens when the unity runs so deep the individuals believe they really are nothing without the other? It is common for all of us to believe an individual is incomplete without the other half. In the past I have believed lies such as:

    • I am nothing without a boyfriend or husband.
    • I will only be happy through marriage.
    • I will only be complete when I am in a relationship.

    Do You Think a Boyfriend Will Complete You? (more…)