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February 2014

February 03, 2014

Good Words for a Monday

A prayer we prayed (I don't know where it's from) on our church's Epiphany...

December 2013

December 04, 2013

Light Your Candles Quietly: Keeping Advent with Mary, Vol. 2 (A repost)

When I first started asking God and myself what it means to be a mother...

December 02, 2013

Light Your Candles Quietly: Keeping Advent with Mary, Vol. 1 (A Repost)

This week I'm working to finish edits on my book. In my absence, I'll...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

Reflections for Easter Sunday

From Girl Meets God: The Last Battle, the final volume of Lewis's Narnia chronicles, pictures...

March 30, 2013

Reflections for Holy Saturday

The Last of the Brooding Miserables by Mary Karr Lord, you maybe know me best...

March 29, 2013

Reflections for Good Friday

From the 8th century Irish monastic poet, Blathma ...The sun concealed its proper light; it...

March 28, 2013

Reflections for Maundy Thursday

Descending Theology: The Garden by Mary Karr We know he was a man because,...

March 27, 2013

Reflections for Holy Wednesday

On John 13:36 - 14:7 ...They have just been told that one of their company...

March 26, 2013

Reflections for Holy Tuesday

The Binding by Cathy Song We love them more than life, these children who are...

March 25, 2013

Reflections for Holy Monday

Isaiah 50:4-10 (TNIV) The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the...

March 24, 2013

Reflections for Palm Sunday

O Lord Jesus Christ, who on this day entered the rebellious city which later rejected...

March 18, 2013

In honor of St. Patrick, his breastplate

This is one of my favorite prayers and because it is traditionally associated with St....

February 2013

February 14, 2013

Beautiful: A reflection for the day after Ash Wednesday

I wrote this post two years ago, when Brooksie was known only as T-Rexy. (These...

February 07, 2013

A letter to St. Benedict, on his feast day (a repost)

Friends, I've been doing a lot of reading about our favorite, St. Benedict, this week...

January 2013

January 17, 2013

The Spiritual Practice of Slowness

I was strangely moved by that almost final scene in the movie Lincoln, when the...

January 11, 2013

Introducing My Chalkboard

I'm trying something new for the next couple of months. Every Friday I'll keep it...

January 04, 2013

One Word 2013: Enough

I wish I were a mom with constant craft supplies. I wish I had every...

December 2012

December 24, 2012

Light Your Candles Quietly: Keeping Advent with Mary, Vol. 4

A Christmas Eve Reflection: Light Your Candle Quietly August made his own menorah this year....

December 20, 2012

2012 in review: Some of my favorite posts of the year

I'll be taking all of next week off, following my final Advent poem tomorrow and...

December 10, 2012

Light Your Candles Quietly: Keeping Advent with Mary, Vol. 2

An Invitation to Ponder When I first started asking God and myself what it...

December 03, 2012

Light Your Candles Quietly: Keeping Advent with Mary, Vol. 1

Vol. 1 - An invitation to enter Advent attentive and aware August and I...

November 2012

November 21, 2012

Thanksgiving in their words…

This is a repost from last Thanksgiving. But how can I not post it again?...

November 09, 2012

Sacred Touch

When I was one year into my life in graduate school, I helped take a...

October 2012

October 22, 2012

Downhill: The Miracle and the Standing Still

I feel the dark sadness press in like a dam has broken, an internal stopper...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

The Eternal Now (Debby Bellingham, Part 4)

Welcome to Part 4 of Debby Bellingham's spiritual practice series. If you missed my introduction...

September 26, 2012

The Eternal Now (Debby Bellingham, Part 3)

Welcome to Part 2 of Debby Bellingham's spiritual practice series. If you missed my introduction...

September 25, 2012

The Eternal Now (Debby Bellingham, Part 2)

Welcome to Part 2 of Debby Bellingham's spiritual practice series. If you missed my introduction...

September 24, 2012

The Eternal Now (Debby Bellingham, Part 1)

While I'm off in Italy, I'm honored to share with you a friend whose spiritual...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Far far away

Happy are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sin is put away! Happy are...

August 23, 2012

Conversations with Ourselves

Today I have the honor of guest posting at Preston Yancey's blog in his series...