Brenda Rodgers

Category: Faith

  • Weekend Prayers and Links

    I opened the iPad, and the text message meanest text message stared at me. It cut to my heart, and I began to seethe with anger. My heart started beating fast and my whole body shook. I went straight to my phone to text a friend. “You should see the email I got! I’m done! Done!” Then I emailed my husband, who was at work. “You won’t believe the text message I got!”

    Over the next hours I calculated my response. All the while Jesus kept coming to my mind. I tried to shoo Him away. At that moment, I didn’t want Jesus. I wanted justice. Justice was my right.

    But He wouldn’t leave me alone.

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  • Weekend Prayers and Links

    Do you ever feel like the brokenness of the world is barreling down on your shoulders, but there’s nothing you can do about it? And even though the brokenness has nothing to do with you this time, actually from your seat life’s pretty good, you still feel like some of it’s your responsibility – like you should bear some of the weight to take it off of the ones who are breaking?

    That’s how I’ve felt this week. First there was more news about Iraq, then Robin William’s suicide, and finally an email I received from a young reader who is struggling with the aftermath of an abortion and broken family. And there’s nothing I can do – except for the one thing I did.

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  • Are You a Perfectionist Believing These Lies?

    I never knew I was a perfectionist. Until it took me two hours to pick out a baby gift, pay for it, and drive it home, only to return it the next day because it wasn’t “perfect” enough. Then I knew. I, too, am a perfectionist.

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  • Weekend Prayers and Links

    For thirteen years I was a school teacher, so my year was not marked by January 1st through December 31st. Instead, my year started in August and continued through until the next August. It seemed like when I became a teacher my life started going by faster. I don’t know if continuing to mark my adult years in school years, each with its own chapter, sped it up or just simply that I was getting older, but life certainly hit the accelerator. Before I knew it I was 30. I wasn’t married, and I couldn’t believe it. How could my twenties have gone by so fast? Now I’m 38, and I’m no longer a school teacher. But life isn’t getting any slower. If anything its accelerator pedal is hitting the floor.

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  • Joy in Suffering and a Heart Transplant

    The time of year has come again. I’m writing this post on August 3rd, and as I think back to this day four years ago, my husband was on life support. He was waiting for a donor heart to become available. If he didn’t get a heart within the week, he would die. He got one on August 6th, and had his transplant that night.

    I remember how time stood still for me that week. When your husband is about to have a heart transplant, statistics become very important to you. I would read the survival rates for heart transplant patients after one year of transplant and then after two years, after five years, ten years, and so on. But I thought to myself that I couldn’t even imagine October coming much less a year – or more.

    And now here we are – four years later.

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  • Weekend Prayers and Links

    Weekend Prayers and Links for Single WomenOkay everyone, so August is here and Weekend Prayers and Links is back! I took a small break from this series over the summer, but I will tell you, and I’m so honest and sincere when I say it, YOU have not left my mind! I think about my readers every single day, and I pray for you.

    Here’s a glimpse into the past few months with a cool God moment at the beach. I just love when God shows up so boldly. This picture was taken on Fripp Island in South Carolina. We went there in June with our family. Fripp Island is only six miles long and is still well preserved. The deer know whose home it really is, and they will walk right up to you. (more…)