Brenda Rodgers

Category: Raising Girls

  • 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…)

  • 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.

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  • Looking Up to Someone Who Can Mentor You

    Last month I wrote on my experience with the destructive cycle of comparing. I believe this is an area all women (and men, to a degree) struggle with. When I was writing the post, I realized I was trying to justify my comparing by calling it, “looking up to people.” But there is a distinct difference between looking up to people and comparing myself to others.

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  • Why We Give Our Daughters Three Names

    You may have gotten a small word that a few weeks ago Prince William and Duchess Kate welcomed their second baby. And like monarchs previous, the new princess received three names – Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.

    Last week we, too, named our second daughter due October 1st. She also has three names and so does our first daughter. Of course in our minds our baby girls are ever as much princesses as Princess Charlotte, but that’s not why we gave them three names. Frankly, our reason is much less romantic than following royal tradition.

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  • Is It Wrong to Pray for a Specific Gender When You’re Pregnant?

    When I was pregnant with my first baby everyone asked, “Do you want a boy or a girl?” I would smile and say something politically correct like, “Well, it really doesn’t matter, but it would be fun to have a girl.”

    I really wanted a girl. Like I really, really wanted a girl. So much so that I prayed and asked God to give me a girl.

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