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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...

March 03, 2014

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

I worked out Saturday morning with a friend. As we rode home together, the...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

God comes so close to us and we come so close to God

I’m teaching third grade Sunday School at my church. This is a new sort of...

July 2013

July 10, 2013

One Good Phrase: Anna Broadway (The Lord is kind to the undeserving)

It's been extra quiet around here while I've been visiting family on the East coast....

June 2013

June 20, 2013

Marriage and the Growing Up of Us

When did we grow up? It wasn’t then, when we stood in the mountain meadow,...

March 2013

March 19, 2013

For Brooksie, on his 2nd birthday (A Thankful Tuesday post, of sorts)

Brooksie, when I got you out of bed on your second birthday, I whispered....

February 2013

February 14, 2013

Beautiful: A reflection for the day after Ash Wednesday

I wrote this post two years ago, when Brooksie was known only as T-Rexy. (These...

February 13, 2013

One Good Phrase: God loves you and so do I (Christine Gough)

Christine Gough is a mom, a fellow resident of Northern California, and a kindred who...

February 01, 2013

My Chalkboard: Madeleine L’Engle

From A Circle of Quiet, page 45

January 2013

January 30, 2013

One Good Phrase: No Matter What (Joy Bennett)

I've recently gotten to know Joy Bennett in these internet parts and I'm constantly moved...

January 04, 2013

One Word 2013: Enough

I wish I were a mom with constant craft supplies. I wish I had every...

December 2012

December 19, 2012

For Carey. And for her friend, Melynn.

When I get the text from Melynn, it’s 8:30 on Saturday morning and we’ve just...

December 12, 2012

These Sacred Everydays

Last week marked our very last in the series {This Sacred Everyday}. I have loved...

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 21, 2012

Thanksgiving in their words…

This is a repost from last Thanksgiving. But how can I not post it again?...

November 20, 2012

Some Spiritual Influences: A Thankful Tuesday Thanksgiving Post

There was Linda who spoke Jesus with her voice and with the way she stood beside...

November 16, 2012

What I am.

I believe that our passage intends primarily to teach Christian witnesses of all times how,...

November 09, 2012

Sacred Touch

When I was one year into my life in graduate school, I helped take a...

October 2012

October 05, 2012

Italy: A story in pictures

When you travel 24 hours and your guts are all twisted because your kids are...

September 2012

September 11, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: When there’s one week left and it all feels fuzzy

I will live in Austin for one more week. A week from tomorrow, I'll leave...

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...

August 23, 2012

Conversations with Ourselves

Today I have the honor of guest posting at Preston Yancey's blog in his series...

August 22, 2012

{This Sacred Everyday} Holly Grantham

{This Sacred Everyday} is back! And today we're welcoming Holly Grantham. Holly is a new...

August 06, 2012

Wherever I Send You, Whatever it Costs You

A week and a half ago, prior to my grandfather’s funeral, as I ate a...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

My food…

Yesterday after lunch, August and Chris were sleeping together in my bedroom while I cleaned...

July 17, 2012

Thankful Tuesday, from a soup kitchen

I’m writing from a soup kitchen in the French Quarter in New Orleans. Here there...

July 16, 2012

When Prayer is Everything

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

July 10, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Cousins Camp ’12

It is late on Monday night and tomorrow we will be driving away from Cousin...

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...

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...