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August 2012

August 21, 2012

Sri Lanka, World Vision, and the Question God is Asking Us

A thousand years ago, also known as July 3, I made a decision to travel...

August 20, 2012

Waiting

I wait for the Lord; my soul waits for him; in his word is my...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

When Prayer is Everything

It's Sunday and I’m sitting on the very last row of a jet moving thousands...

June 2012

June 18, 2012

To Brooksie, on his baptism…

This past Friday evening, we gathered family and friends in Philadelphia and Brooksie was baptized...

June 11, 2012

When prayer is not cultivated in the quiet

Fifteen years ago, my youth pastor taught me to sit still, to keep my focus,...

May 2012

May 21, 2012

Gospel, Pascal, Heart (and why I believe in Jesus)

“Make [Christianity] attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it...

May 03, 2012

For those of us who need Good News…

On Fridays I usually post a poem that I've read that week or that has...

April 2012

April 26, 2012

Dishes and Litany and all that Beauty

I live in the litany of the putting away. The clean dishes go onto shelves,...

April 23, 2012

Walk slow and notice

The plane lands and you have a connection to make in a city you've never...

April 08, 2012

Easter Sunday

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

April 07, 2012

Holy Saturday

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

April 06, 2012

Good Friday: Christ’s cross over this throat

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

April 05, 2012

Maundy Thursday

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

April 04, 2012

Holy Wednesday: Abiding Places

Throughout Holy Week I’ll be directing you with artwork, words, and poems that are working...

April 03, 2012

Holy Tuesday: ‘For What Binds Us’

Throughout Holy Week I’ll be directing you with artwork, words, and poems that are working...

April 02, 2012

Monday of Holy Week

Throughout Holy Week at Mama:Monk, you won’t be hearing much from my head. But I’ll...

April 01, 2012

Palm Sunday

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

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Let them tell this story: She was always being remade

I'm a stressed mom. I'm stressed too often. I worry that August's most prominent memory...

March 08, 2012

Come, Holy Ghost

Oh dear, I'm afraid this is my second re-post in one week. But I've decided...

March 07, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} Work and Prayer and Rest

"Idleness is the enemy of the soul. Therefore all the community must be occupied at...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

Fumbling Toward Alleluia

I slowly eased into liturgy. I was reading Anglicans first before I entered the doors...

February 22, 2012

Wednesday: Ashes and Death

I'm reposting what I wrote for Ash Wednesday last year, when I was nine months...

February 20, 2012

Transfiguration and Beauty

Last year, I wrote about picking my son up from the nursery after our church's...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

The Host Raised

One of the things I most love about the intentionality of liturgy is how suddenly...

January 26, 2012

What is more important? Please circle.

I've said before that I'm drawn to teaching August scripture from the perspective of the...

January 13, 2012

When Jesus says: “I do choose”

A leper came to Jesus begging him, and kneeling he said to him, "If you...

January 05, 2012

The Feast of the Holy Name

It's Sunday morning, New Year's Day, and for the first New Year's ever, I'm not...

January 02, 2012

So she makes some resolutions…

...and they are: The pursuit of more silence. Seriously, how unspecific can I be here?...

December 2011

December 22, 2011

Love in This: An Advent Reflection

It was "Ring of Fire" in my head that day as I moved through our...

December 12, 2011

{Family and the Christian Year} St. Nicholas Day and New Traditions

Artist: Elisabeth Jvanovsky Every once in a while around here I'm going to be discussing...