Brenda Rodgers

Author: Brenda Rodgers

  • The Unwanted Kind of Encouragement

    I’ll never forget that night. I was about 28 years old. Single. And at a Bunko party with all married women.

    All was good until the conversation turned to things that single girls are precluded from – you know, married things.

    As the well-meaning but under-sensitive woman voiced my preclusion out loud I knew that my soul was out and all over my forehead.

    “Yes, I am different from you, and really, all I want is to be you.”

    Today I am honored to be a guest writer at Sweet Blessing with Jenifer Metzger. I am sharing How Not to Encourage a Single Woman.

    Will you join me there as I continue my story of this lonely night at Bunko and learn what single women truly need as encouragement? 

     

    Have you heard? My new eBook Fall for Him: 25 Challenges from a Recovering Single is now available at FallforHim.com! With the holidays coming up this would be a great gift for either yourself or the single woman in your life – maybe a friend, sister, cousin, or niece. You know – the one we don’t see? It’s only $4.99. Give a gift of encouragement to this woman today!

  • Being a Stay-at-Home-Mom and Then Having to Work Outside the Home

     Welcome to our series, Motherhood: More than Meets the Eye, where every Monday until December 18th eight bloggers explore what the world of motherhood truly looks like and how even though each unique, we’re all on a mission! Please join us!

    I recently wrote about my very busy day and how at this time in my life, whether I want to or not, I am  called to be a help-meet to my husband, surrendering to God and sometimes do what in my heart I don’t want to for a season.

    But what if it’s not my dream? How do I not get resentful? How do I fully trust God? Why God?

    All these, questions flutter through my mind from time to time.

    You see, it’s not at simple as you are a mom, you should just stay home for some of us. Some of us make it work through hard financial circumstances, or even leave careers, but sometimes we have no choice. We have to work. It is what God has called us to do at this moment in time.

    I hope you’ll join me over at day2day joys today where I’ll share a bit about my journey!

    Want to read all the posts in this series? Be sure to check them out by clicking here! 

  • Deciding to Leave an Awesome Career to Be a Stay-at-Home-Mom

     Welcome to our series, Motherhood: More than Meets the Eye, where until December 18th eight bloggers explore what the world of motherhood truly looks like and how even though each unique, we’re all on a mission! Please join us!

    What makes a woman earning six figures a year walk away from her career to stay at home full time?

    A dream.
    Love.
    Maybe a touch of insanity…
    I wish I could tell you that I was really organized in my pursuit of stay-at-home motherhood, but I wasn’t. I read a couple of books on being a stay-at-home mom. I read a couple of blogs. I discounted half of what I read because I didn’t like what they had to say.
    My decision-making process was emotionally charged, volatile even, and went kind of like this:

    I’ve dreamt all my life of owning a farm on top of a mountain and raising my children there. I can do that. It will be easy – serene and gratifying.I will have so much more free time – I can finally work on that scrapbook of our wedding and concentrate on working out and losing weight.I love my daughter SO MUCH. I HATE leaving her at daycare while I go to work. When I am at home I can spend all day with her – playing with her, teaching her, loving her. It will be amazing.My husband can make the mortgage payment.Cool.I QUIT.

    Oh wow. Today I laugh so hard at myself that I could cry.
    Come join me over at “From Cube to Farm” so that I can share with you a little of my journey, how I fared and what I learned…

    Heather Bryant

    Heather Bryant is a Christian, devoted wife, mother and author. Although she had a career at the intersection of finance and technology, Heather now stays home on a farm to raise her children full-time.
    Heather recently published her first book, “From Cube to Farm: Surviving and Thriving as a Stay-at-Home Mom.” Heather’s website and blog are also dedicated to supporting and encouraging stay-at-home moms.

    Want to read all the posts in this series? Be sure to check them out by clicking here! 

  • Career Woman to Stay-at-Home-Mom

    Welcome to our series, Motherhood: More than Meets the Eye, where every Monday until December 18th eight bloggers explore what the world of motherhood truly looks like and how even though each unique, we’re all on a mission! Please join us!


    I thought I had it all figured out. I was going to have my baby and then, once I was recovered and refreshed, I would head back to work.
    Boy was I in for a surprise!
    Sister, just because we stay at home doesn’t mean we aren’t working our heineys off. It is hard. Really hard. And so is the decision to commit to staying home!

    The decision to actually stay at home didn’t happen overnight, but it didn’t take much time to see why I needed to stay home.

    How was I to train my children in the way they should go if I wasn’t home? I was perplexed…join me, Nikki, over at Christian Mommy Blogger where I share the reasons and motivation behind leaving my “real” job for a really big job!

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  • Breaking the Cycle of a Single Woman’s Tarnished Past

    The years right before being set free from the nest are crucial for a young girl. They’re the years that can bring her a lifetime of peace or set her up with unwanted consequences. Consequences that she did not mean to choose, but that simply came from not having Truth to guide her.

    Truth about her worth.

    Truth about her beauty.

    Truth about her purpose.

    Soon she thinks that there has to be a better way. But the voices of untruth continue to speak to her, and she has nothing to fight them with.

    Voices that say,

    “He’s too good for you. Your past is too bad.”

    “You will never be happy alone.”

    “If you don’t do this or this or this, then you will never get a man.”

    “I’m tainted. A good, Christian man would never want me.”

    “I’ll never find someone who will accept all I’ve done.”

    So she continues to believe them, and the cycle goes on. 

    Many single women find themselves in a cycle of defeat over their tarnished pasts. 

    But you can make a break-through. 

    Today I am honored to be a guest writer at Awakened Anew where I share how single women can break the cycle of defeat from their pasts. Will you join me there?

     

    Have you heard? My new eBook Fall for Him: 25 Challenges from a Recovering Single is now available on in Kindle, Nook, and PDF formats! With the holidays coming up this would be a great gift for either yourself or the single woman in your life – maybe a friend, sister, cousin, or niece. You know – the one we don’t see? It’s only $4.99. Give a gift of encouragement to this woman today!

  • Who Gives Us the Desires of Our Hearts?

    When I was single there was one verse in the Bible that I hung onto as my hope.

    “Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4

    My biggest desire was to meet a man, get married, and of course, live happily ever after.

    In order to make that happen I did everything I thought was required of me to “delight in the Lord”.

    However, I still pined after something that wasn’t mine or God’s for me. And I still did not feel peace.

    Today I am honored to be a guest writer at A Little Missionary Girl All Grown Up answering the question, “Who should give us the desires of our hearts?” Please join me there and share your thoughts in the comments!

     

    Have you heard? My new eBook Fall for Him: 25 Challenges from a Recovering Single is now available on in Kindle, Nook, and PDF formats! With the holidays coming up this would be a great gift for either yourself or the single woman in your life – maybe a friend, sister, cousin, or niece. It’s only $4.99. Give a gift of encouragement to this woman today!