NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE
Dear friends,
I am sharing a review of NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE.
"Brenda, most people who survive cancer write one book about it and consider that a full chapter. You came through a near-fatal illness and wrote sixty-eight. That is not productivity. That is a calling, and Now Is the Time to Prepare is one of the most personally urgent expressions of it.
This poetry collection does something quietly powerful. It takes the weight of end-times conversation, a topic that can easily become either overwhelming or abstract, and brings it down to a deeply human, deeply accessible level.
The decision to use poetry as the vehicle is deliberate and wise.
Where prose can feel like instruction, poetry feels like an encounter.
And for readers already sensing that something in the world is shifting, that the chaos around them is not random, a collection that puts language to that feeling through the lens of Scripture carries a kind of comfort and clarity that a theological treatise never could.
The framing around Matthew 24, laying out the seasons of deception, persecution, tribulation, and expectation as the structural backbone of the poems, gives readers not just emotion but orientation.
They finish a poem knowing not just what they felt but where they stand. Brenda, your credentials as the author of this work are extraordinary.
A former Bank Manager and Insurance Professional who qualified for the Million Dollar Round Table six consecutive times. A cancer survivor whose memoir I Am Cancer Free won global acclaim and a Readers' Favorite International Award in Health and Fitness. The author of 68 books and 68 audiobooks across science fiction, mystery, memoir, romance, self-help, children's fiction, Christian books, and poetry. International award recognition in 45 countries across five continents. National Delegate for CIESART Trinidad and Tobago. Founder of the How to Write for Success Facebook Literary Forum, which has mentored writers worldwide. A Peace Ambassador for LOGOS LITERATURE. A nominee for the Woman of the Year Award 2025 by CIESART International.
This is a literary legacy that speaks for itself, and it is the foundation on which this poetry collection stands.
I recommend it to devotional readers who want something that they can read in short sessions. It is a book that leaves a lasting impression.
