It is so nice to meet you here at Triple Braided!
I’m Brenda, the stereotypical proper, southern woman who smiles, but never lets you know what I’m really thinking, writes “Y’all” like it’s standard, proper language, dresses up for tailgates every Saturday in the fall, looks for handwritten thank-you notes in the mail, and is embarrassed to bring store-bought food to a party.
The secret is that on the inside I am an Improper Mess!
The other secret? It’s in the middle of my improperness that I find peace. Peace in the surrendered that there is a Creator making me proper, acceptable, holy. And finally I can rest.
Here, at Triple Braided, I write about life in a state of surrendering through all the seasons of improperness we find ourselves in. Through my words I hope to invite you into that life – a life where yourself, the souls around you, and your Creator – make a Triple Braid, and you find yourself surrendering to all you are created for in every season of your life.
Meet My Family
For years, I lived as a a braid of two – just me and the souls around me – holding onto my life with clinched fists as if it was my own. I was a single girl who wanted peace in a husband more than peace in Him – the Only One who could truly give it to me. Then I gave up, and with open hands accepted whatever was to be.
What was to be was a husband who was dying from Cardiomyopathy and would need a heart transplant. I went from a single girl begging God for a husband to a wife begging God to not take back the husband he had given me.
But this time, instead of clinching my fists tighter, I surrendered, opening them up to face the sky. The Only One met me there in the middle of my faith and my surrendering, and He became the Third Braid.
Today my husband, John, is alive and well from The One’s gift to us of a new heart – and a new life. We are both native Georgians - avid University of Georgia fans and graduates {Go Dawgs!} – but we now live in North Carolina for John’s career in finance. I serve at our church working with young adult single women. Single women are my heart. The only other secret is that soon our family of two will become a family of three. So I’ve started learning how to be a mommy, too.
