©2016 Brenda Black In tragedy and grief, we come together as a community to both share and bear the weight of walking through it rightly. We do our level best to say kind things and to demonstrate loving actions. All … Read More
©2010 Brenda Black “The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.” ~S. Gudder Take the passage in Luke 10:1-20 for example: “After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent … Read More
©2010 Brenda Black My brother was only eight years old when he broke his arm riding a bull in a junior rodeo. His elbow snapped under the pressure of holding tightly to the flat braided rope wrapped around the bull’s … Read More
©2010 Brenda BlackI never saw them until they bolted from behind a hedge row. Some of the wild turkeys escaped on speeding and spindly legs while others took to flight. Where seconds earlier there was silence along my gravel road, … Read More
©2010 Brenda Black From an infomercial the syncopated rise and fall of a smooth talking spokesmodel begins her spiel. “Are you tired? Stressed? Feel like the world is falling apart all around you? Do you go to sleep worried and … Read More
©2010 Brenda Black I’m just a speck. No, I’m a speck on a speck! We’re all just itty bitty, teeny, tiny flecks of humanity in the big picture. If ever we begin to think too highly of ourselves, consider a … Read More
©2010 Brenda Black “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” With passion, Patrick Henry implored the citizens of Virginia to join the American Revolution. But his fighting words … Read More
©2010 Brenda Black Dog eat dog corporate climbing and greedy management never modeled an ideal business, yet many buy in to selfish and spiteful tendencies to look out for number one at all costs. And look where it got us. … Read More
©2010 Brenda Black A 2006 study of college students, conducted by Bryan Farha at Oklahoma City University and Gary Steward Jr. of the University of Central Oklahoma, reached the same conclusion. Belief in the paranormal – from astrology to communicating … Read More
©2010 Brenda Black Knock. Knock. “Mommy, are you in there?” Without fail, they will find you at your most private and most vulnerable moment. After hours of postponement, you seize the opportunity to nab some privacy and that’s when they … Read More