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February 2014

February 25, 2014

An invitation to be ready (to be needy)

I chase my almost-three-year-old around the bedroom with the batman t-shirt. He busts out of...

January 2014

January 15, 2014

The Finding and the Being Found: Introducing my book

You stare at your baby in your arms, rocking back and forth in the room...

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 -...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

One Good Phrase: Roo Ciambriello (Brush your shoulders off)

I didn't know Roo Ciambriello until I joined her as a World Vision blogger in...

October 23, 2013

One Good Phrase: Zack Hunt (Costly Grace)

Today I get to introduce you to Zack Hunt, a blogger and thinker whose special...

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...

September 2013

September 18, 2013

One Good Phrase: Brooks Boyett (Their stories aren’t written yet)

I'm so excited to introduce you to my brother, Brooks. Not only does he have...

September 13, 2013

The Song in the Story

In the concrete block, open air home, where baby chicks run around a cage in...

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,...

July 2013

July 17, 2013

One Good Phrase: Amy Young (Grace to you and peace from God)

Amy Young is a new blogger-friend in my life and I'm thankful for the chance...

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....

May 2013

May 29, 2013

One Good Phrase: Annie Barnett (Everyone is learning)

I love Annie Barnett because the kindness that shows up in her writing and visual...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

One Good Phrase: Sarah Bessey (Calm your heart)

Someday I may list my top five bloggers of the universe. And if I do,...

April 19, 2013

On beauty and ruin…

Friends, I wrote a post for A Deeper Church this week. On the tragedy in...

April 17, 2013

One Good Phrase: Tanya Marlow (Do It Anyway)

Tanya Marlow would probably not admit it, but she is brave. That's why I'm drawn...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

One Good Phrase: Preston Yancey (People show you who they are)

Twice I have had the privilege of eating a meal with Preston Yancey, one of...

January 2013

January 14, 2013

I know I am the beloved.

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

January 11, 2013

Introducing My Chalkboard

I'm trying something new for the next couple of months. Every Friday I'll keep it...

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 31, 2012

Story: Grace (my post at Deeper Church)

I interrupt my regularly scheduled blog silence to send you over to A Deeper Church on this fine...

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 18, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: It’s almost Christmas!

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

December 12, 2012

These Sacred Everydays

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

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 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 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 09, 2012

Sacred Touch

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

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Jesus in Real Life: Halloween and Death and Celebrating the Saints

“Why is it called Halloween, Mom?” We're driving to preschool. This is the time of...

October 26, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Linda Hogan

Last night I had a phone conversation with a friend from Austin: a sophomore in...

October 25, 2012

My big, scary moving fears (or, when God gives the good gifts)

I cried when we found out we were moving to San Francisco. I cried because...