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December 2013

December 06, 2013

Light Your Candles Quietly: Keeping Advent with Mary, Vol. 3 (A Repost)

Note: This was first published last Advent, following the shootings in Newtown... Vol. 3 -...

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...

December 21, 2012

Advent Poetry Series: “Christ’s Mother Reflects: His Childhood”

Christ's Mother Reflects: His Childhood “...and for him to see me mended / I must...

December 18, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: It’s almost Christmas!

Children singing “Away in a Manger” and sharing the stage with one of the...

December 17, 2012

Light Your Candles Quietly: Keeping Advent with Mary, Vol. 3

Vol. 3 - Defiantly Demanding Redemption “In sober fact there is little romance or beauty...

December 14, 2012

Advent Poetry Series “Darkness”

Darkness For Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the...

December 10, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Advent thoughts, Christmas gifts, and baby cheetahs

Some words that are blowing my mind this week, from the amazing Advent book I’m...

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 07, 2012

Advent Poetry Series “The Lord is With Thee”

The Lord is With Thee from the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 1 They hail me...

December 06, 2012

St. Nicholas Day: Santa, Mystery and Small Family Ritual

Friends, I'm going to ask you to jump over with me to another site again...

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 30, 2012

Advent Poetry Series “Star”

Though I've shared my own poems on the blog before, I always find it intimidating...

November 27, 2012

Thankful Tuesday after Thanksgiving

For a sweet, small Thanksgiving with friends. I love hosting parties with my husband. And...

December 2011

December 24, 2011

How He Entered

“…a son, a male child, who will rule all nations with an iron scepter.” -Revelation...

December 23, 2011

Christ’s Mother Reflects, His Childhood

“and for him to see me mended / I must see him torn.” -Luci Shaw...

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 21, 2011

{Practicing Benedict} Humility

"Holy Scripture, brethren, cries out to us, saying, 'Everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled,and...

December 16, 2011

Darkness

"For Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the Lord...

December 15, 2011

Because I love Jesus so much…

We're talking about Christmas songs at the lunch table. I say, "My favorite song is...

December 13, 2011

Pancakes, baby kindness, cards addressed, Mary ‘[curled] in a brown pod’

And the list goes on... Listening to Chris Hohorst (Chris Hohorst!) making up a song...

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...

December 09, 2011

The Lord is With Thee

The Lord is With Thee -from the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 1 They hail me...

December 06, 2011

Advent Thankful

A Thankful Tuesday List: Two candles lit on the Advent wreath. Quiet morning coffee in...

December 05, 2011

Because the eternal birth is always happening…

Advent is for waiting, but I hardly know what to do with that concept. I've...

December 05, 2011

Because the eternal birth is always happening…

Advent is for waiting, but I hardly know what to do with that concept. I've...

December 02, 2011

Star

Star “A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun,...

December 01, 2011

World AIDS Day: Turn it Red

Ten years ago, as a 22 year-old, I returned home from one month in Kenya...

November 2011

November 18, 2011

To my Mary icon, in preparation for Advent

Mary, you’re always sad, looking at me from the corner of my desk, your son...

November 02, 2011

{Practicing Benedict} The God who comes

Welcome to Mama:Monk’s weekly Wednesday series examining St. Benedict’s Rule and what it has meant to me...