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Family, Parenting and Religion

2014-03-03T00:13:02-07:00

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#FoundGrace: Our Community Lenten Practice. ‘Find yourself found.’*

Last updated on: March 3, 2014 at 12:13 am By michaboyett

I worked out Saturday morning with a friend. As we rode home together, the subject of Lent came up. “I just want to emphasize grace this Lent,” she said. “I’ve suffered enough these past few months and I feel like I need to recognize that before I give myself a checklist of tasks to live up to. I want to come into this season just letting myself experience God’s love.” YES. Yes. Ash Wednesday is in two days. Two... Read more

2014-02-27T23:08:56-07:00

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My Chalkboard: spiritual life in our everyday existence

Last updated on: February 27, 2014 at 11:08 pm By michaboyett

I love Henri Nouwen. I love this quote. I only just found it this past week while listening to a lecture for my counseling course, so I haven’t ever read the book this comes from, Making All Things New. Have any of you read it? I’m also loving how beautifully this fits with my book and the idea of “Everyday Prayer.” Happy Friday and happy last day of February, friends! Read more

My Chalkboard

2014-02-25T15:38:00-07:00

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What people are saying about FOUND (some shameless self-promotion)

Last updated on: February 25, 2014 at 3:38 pm By michaboyett

Found releases in 33 days! So, as we head into the month of March, I just wanted to take a moment to remind you that it is available for pre-order on Amazon here. (You can buy it in paperback or Kindle!) Here are what some people are saying about it… “I read Micha’s words and my breathing slows. She gives perspective. And hope. And a refreshing lightness to not take what doesn’t matter too seriously. She revives: When... Read more

Found

shameless self promotion

2014-02-24T22:23:19-07:00

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An invitation to be ready (to be needy)

Last updated on: February 24, 2014 at 10:23 pm By michaboyett

I chase my almost-three-year-old around the bedroom with the batman t-shirt. He busts out of the doorway and sprints for the living room, squealing. “I’m not going to chase you around,” I say, even though–let’s tell the truth–I’m pretty desperate here. We’ve got to get in the car to make it to school on time and this is the daily trek around the metaphoric Mulberry Bush. Oh, the amount of energy I spend trying to make these children of mine... Read more

2014-02-24T07:02:22-07:00

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If King Wrote Us a Letter Today (a guest post from Grace Biskie)

Last updated on: February 24, 2014 at 7:02 am By michaboyett

Throughout the month of February, Patheos has invited its bloggers to contribute to a conversation called 50 Years After Birmingham: Reflections on and from the Black Church. I loved Patheos’ idea to host this conversation in honor of Black History Month and wanted our blog to be part of it. As a white woman with a mostly white blog-audience, I also wanted to invite us to consider bigger questions of race in our churches. It didn’t take me long to... Read more

Guest Post

race

the Church

2014-02-20T16:00:04-07:00

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My Chalkboard: Flannery O’Conner

Last updated on: February 20, 2014 at 4:00 pm By michaboyett

From A Prayer Journal. I am loving this tiny, beautiful book of Flannery O’Conner’s prayers. It was a Christmas present from the hubs, which I’m just now opening, what with all my newly created reading time and all. : ) Happy Friday, friends. Read more

My Chalkboard

2014-02-19T20:46:52-07:00

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Making Space, Part 2 (Let’s be practical here.)

Last updated on: February 19, 2014 at 8:46 pm By michaboyett

So on Tuesday I wrote about the idea of “Making Space” as a spiritual practice. As I go through this series on Invitation, I can assure you that I’m just trying these ideas on for myself. Sometimes my posts can be super abstract. If I were a reader of me, I’d probably complain that I’m always all talky talky and never practical. So let’s try being practical for a second. Here’s what Tuesday’s post looks like for me right... Read more

Invitation

2014-02-17T22:20:46-07:00

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An Invitation to Make Space

Last updated on: February 17, 2014 at 10:20 pm By michaboyett

A couple of weeks ago I shared how, after a difficult season of living with daily emotional stress and anxiety related to the neighbors below us, we moved. And on that first day in our new home, as I stood on our deck, looking out on our new backyard a beautifully clear afternoon, the first words that came to my mind were from the Psalms: “He brought me out into a spacious place.” One month in, as I walk... Read more

2014-02-13T21:50:12-07:00

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The Wildest of Lovers: My Chalkboard for Valentines Day

Last updated on: February 13, 2014 at 9:50 pm By michaboyett

Happy Valentines Day, Lovers! Taken from Love Poems From God: Sacred Voices from the East and West. Read more

My Chalkboard

poetry

2014-02-13T07:23:40-07:00

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Vlogging with Cara: What kind of Jesus are we offering our kids?

Last updated on: February 13, 2014 at 7:23 am By michaboyett

What do you all think? Do most children’s Bibles make you cringe? Do you have any other “brown Jesus”/ “Jesus with real feelings” Bibles you make sure your kids are reading? Read more

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