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March 2014

March 20, 2014

On Writing: Ego, Insecurity, and the Life of the Beloved

Several months ago, I emailed my former spiritual director, Debby, and asked her to help...

February 2014

February 18, 2014

An Invitation to Make Space

A couple of weeks ago I shared how, after a difficult season of living...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Enough: A Reflection on 2013

I know it’s almost February. But, if you don’t mind having a little grace with...

January 13, 2014

I’m Back. And I have a post up at Deeper Family. Also, hi.

Hi. It feels a little strange to sit here writing something out to say...

November 2013

November 06, 2013

One Good Phrase: Laura Turner (The adventure continues…)

Well, we all knew this day would come. It's our very last week of One...

October 2013

October 21, 2013

Courage to love

The thing about humans is that in order to understand one another, we must sacrifice...

October 10, 2013

The Pursuit of Enough: Ask me what I have for you…

When I was five months pregnant with Brooksie, I was barely one year into our...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

The Pursuit of Enough: When God makes it beautiful

I’ve been grinding my mouth guard down to a thin layer of plastic. All night,...

March 2013

March 04, 2013

The Pursuit of Enough: Remembering the Thankful

I can flip the switch from Resting Weekend Micha to Anxious Snap-Mouth Micha in...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

The Pursuit of Enough: Keeping Sabbath

“We rest in order to honor God and his creation, which suggests that not to...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

The Pursuit of Enough: Vol 1 Can you possibly organize your ENFP life?

I had a breakdown freak-out sobfest last week. I feel like if you’re gonna...

January 14, 2013

I know I am the beloved.

“Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says,...

December 2012

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...

October 2012

October 23, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Preschool Bravery and Gut-Laughing

Yesterday was August’s first day at his new preschool. He was scared. And it is...

September 2012

September 06, 2012

A post that ends with grace.

Send out your light and our truth, that they may lead me, and bring me...

September 05, 2012

Why I’m afraid to tell you where we’re going on vacation

On September 19, Chris and I are going to Italy. Without our kids. And we’re...

September 04, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Pre-Move Moving Weekend

We did it. The movers showed up Friday morning and took all our possessions away...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

{This Sacred Everyday} Andrea Palpant Dilley

Andrea Palpant Dilley has led the writer's group I've been part of at my church...

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...

May 2012

May 02, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} Gentle Piety, Warm Charity

At the entrance to the monastery there should be a wise senior who is too...

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...

February 2012

February 13, 2012

Sweet Monday Morning Goodness

I read this words in bed yesterday morning, in my Christmas pajama pants (yes, I'm...

January 2012

January 09, 2012

For a day when…

You arrive at church 30 minutes late and take another 30 to lower your raised...

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...

December 2011

December 14, 2011

{Practicing Benedict} When it is best not to speak

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen...

November 2011

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...

August 2011

August 03, 2011

This Way to Austin…

I know, I know. How clichéd is that picture? But I took it myself. I...

May 2011

May 27, 2011

Mama admits she’s kind of a crazy person.

We all have our crazy-makers. Mine is email, and phone calls, and thank you notes—basically...

April 2011

April 28, 2011

Sisyphus and Motherhood and Coffee

Yesterday morning I woke to a quiet (and sort of creepy) almost three-year-old standing beside...

February 2011

February 28, 2011

On Ripeness and Courage

Why does “full term” have to feel so…full? I once read a lovely book (which...