by Brenda L. Yoder | Feb 5, 2023 | Faith
This beautiful creek runs through our backyard. It borders wide open pastures and woods behind us. It feeds our family’s cattle. It’s my sacred space. The creek is not one formed naturally. It was dug as a ditch over 100 years ago when our neighborhood...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Jan 22, 2023 | Faith, Life
Not without design does God make the music of our lives. John Ruskin Saver of Things On December 31, 2022, I finished up the last stitch on an heirloom quilt I’ve worked on since April 2020 during the pandemic shutdown. It is for our first grandchild. The...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Jan 8, 2023 | Faith
Someone described Robert Penn Warren as one who soaked up his era’s culture like emotional furniture. Boy, did that resonate with me. While we are products of our generation, we are also products of the culture and how it affects who us. As a Christian,...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Oct 27, 2022 | Faith
The first hard frost made a visit today. It was both beautiful and sad. Beautiful because the colors were breathtaking, down to the white crystals on the grass that glistened in the sun. Sad because it kills the vibrant flowers that bloomed all summer with...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Sep 29, 2022 | Faith, Parenting
When my daughter was three, I snuggled with her on the couch as we watched the our first Disney movie. Snow White barely started when the queen’s voice and evil face sneered, “Bring me her heart in a box.” If this were in real life, I wouldn’t...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Jun 4, 2022 | Coaching, Faith
It Doesn’t Need to be Complicated! This week a overseas cyber attack halted meat production in the United States. Talk about complicated! We’ve come so far with technology that we can’t butcher an animal, process the meat, and get it to stores as we...
