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Family, Parenting and Religion

2012-04-23T06:00:16-07:00

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Walk slow and notice

Last updated on: April 23, 2012 at 6:00 am By michaboyett

The plane lands and you have a connection to make in a city you’ve never see the ground of. Two or three times your body has hovered close here: once in a suburb, twice at this airport where you taxi now toward the bulding. A bell chimes and all at once, as if a symphony, you all unclick seat belts, reach forward for purses and backpacks, stand to feet with heads bents, eyes facing down under short ceilings, waiting. How... Read more

2012-04-20T06:00:42-07:00

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Poem-a-Day Friday: Marie Howe

Last updated on: April 20, 2012 at 6:00 am By Micha Boyett Hohorst

This week, I listened to a rebroadcast of Terry Gross’ Fresh Air interview with poet Marie Howe back in October. Listening to her voice brought back memories of a summer class I took in July of 2000. That was the summer before my senior year of college. That class, “Contemporary American Women Poets” with my favorite all-time professor Bob Fink, was pivotal in shaping what I understand and love about poetry. That summer shimmers under those poems I read, even though I have memories... Read more

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2012-04-19T04:33:21-07:00

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A ‘Mother Letter’ for the Mamas

Last updated on: April 19, 2012 at 4:33 am By michaboyett

Dearest Mamas, When I was pregnant with my first child, my friend Emily (one year ahead of me in the baby-making) gave me a piece of advice: Have grace with yourself, she said. She was talking about those first moments when I’d hold his tiny squirming flesh to my breast: When I expected fireworks of passionate mother-love and instead felt afraid, overwhelmed and happy, exhausted and adrenaline-rushed. She said, “Don’t expect the love you feel in that moment to be... Read more

2012-05-20T14:26:14-07:00

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{Practicing Benedict} Offering the Child

Last updated on: May 20, 2012 at 2:26 pm By Micha Boyett Hohorst

“If parents who are from the nobility want to offer to God in the monastery one of their children, who is too young to take personal responsibility, they should draw up a document like that described above and, as they make the offering, wrap the document with the child’s hand in the altar cloth… Poor people may make the offering of a child in the same way. If they have no property at all, they simply write and offer the... Read more

2012-04-17T06:00:44-07:00

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A list of gifts on a Tuesday

Last updated on: April 17, 2012 at 6:00 am By Micha Boyett Hohorst

For a Saturday date night and one long, happy dinner conversation with the Mister For a husband who holds out his arms for our boy when he comes out of the game and cheers, “Yeah, buddy!’ despite August never touching that soccer ball. (Instead he runs around the field with abandon…in the opposite direction of the game). I know I’ve said it before, but how many boys are loved by their fathers unconditionally? I know my husband’s not perfect (he’d... Read more

2014-01-13T11:49:20-07:00

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A couple of photo shoots, some bluebonnets, and one lovely photographer…

Last updated on: January 13, 2014 at 11:49 am By michaboyett

When I made the decision to make the move to Patheos, I knew it was time to spruce things up around here. That meant having a banner with a higher quality photo than Chris’ iPhone pic circa 2008. A friend recommended a local photographer and I had an actual photo shoot. (I don’t think I’ve been in a photo by myself since I was pregnant with August. Why are moms always holding something/someone during pictures? What was I supposed to... Read more

2012-04-13T06:00:51-07:00

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A Very Thankful Poem-a-Day Friday

Last updated on: April 13, 2012 at 6:00 am By michaboyett

I’ve missed our Thankful Tuesdays, friends! So much so that my mind has been filling over with thankful bullet points and I keep thinking: Scratch that on a list! It just feels too far away to wait till Tuesday. So… I’m Thankful for: The gift of walking through Holy Week with all of you Being married to a man whose eyes are always a little red and shiny after Easter services A deck where we can host an Easter meal... Read more

2012-04-12T06:00:59-07:00

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Andrea Palpant Dilley: Doubt, Flat Tires and the Goodness of God

Last updated on: April 12, 2012 at 6:00 am By michaboyett

I first noticed Andrea Palpant Dilley when she shared her testimony in front of our church. That was sometime in September, four weeks into my new life in Austin. And, I couldn’t help but notice: She spoke like somebody who loved words. I decided right then, I’m gonna make her be my friend. Thankfully, she started a writing group and I jumped on the email list and once a month I get to sit in a circle while she leads a... Read more

2012-05-20T14:26:32-07:00

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{Practicing Benedict} Do not disappoint me…

Last updated on: May 20, 2012 at 2:26 pm By michaboyett

“When the decision is made that novices are to be accepted, then they come before the whole community in the oratory to make solemn promise of stability, fidelity to monastic life and obedience … Novices must record their promises in a document … Each must write the document in his or her own hand or, if unable to write, ask another to write it instead; then, after adding a personal signature or mark to the document, each must place it... Read more

2012-04-10T06:00:40-07:00

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Guest Post: The Creaking, Squeaking Altar that Moves

Last updated on: April 10, 2012 at 6:00 am By Micha Boyett Hohorst

I’m thrilled to interrupt our regularly scheduled Thankful Tuesday to bring you some words from one of my favorite bloggers, Megan Tietz at SortaCrunchy. I consider Megan a kindred spirit and I have been so moved by her story of those early months of motherhood, which she is sharing (along with her co-writer, Laura Oyer) in their new book Spirit-Led Parenting. We are honored to be a sweet little stop in their Spirit-Led Parenting blog tour. It’s battered and squeaky and hopelessly... Read more

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