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Micha Boyett

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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...

October 22, 2012

Downhill: The Miracle and the Standing Still

I feel the dark sadness press in like a dam has broken, an internal stopper...

October 17, 2012

{This Sacred Everyday} Amy Julia Becker

Within the span of two weeks, I had two different friends from two different pieces...

October 09, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Dumpling Kings, Trader Joes, Little Boy Bow Ties, etc.

How do I count the ways this week? Old friends and the goodness of being...

October 08, 2012

One Week, Forever, Right Now: A Reflection

It’s been one week since we touched ground and saw our boys. One week since...

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...

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 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 31, 2012

Far far away

Happy are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sin is put away! Happy are...

August 27, 2012

Marriage and the Easy Yoke

“Are you so pissed at your husband for making you move?” The stylist's fingers were...

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 20, 2012

Waiting

I wait for the Lord; my soul waits for him; in his word is my...

August 14, 2012

Checking In…

Friends! I miss you guys. It’s very weird to go through a week and keep...

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...

August 02, 2012

If it shakes you… (introducing Catherine Prewitt)

If it shakes you, let it shake you; let love’s heaviness o’ertake you Let it...

August 01, 2012

{This Sacred Everyday} Jason Boyett

I'm happy to welcome my brother, Jason Boyett, here to Mama:Monk for the very first...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

My food…

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

July 23, 2012

Rivers and Roads: On Saying Goodbye

I have to leave today. Noon. I’ve packed and planned. It’s been a long visit...

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 02, 2012

The Slow Work of Foundation-Making

Cat and me and a few of the girls we love Two weeks ago,...

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...

June 07, 2012

Good words for a Thursday

A collection of thoughts . . . Just some words that are marking me....

June 04, 2012

What Makes a Pastor? Or Linda Horne and the Great Mystery

“I solemnly swear…” Her lip twitched, her eye twinkled. “I solemnly swear…” we repeated, our...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

Ann Voskamp, Tim Challies, Beth Moore: Dinner and a Defense of Earnestness

A month ago I sat in an auditorium at the Festival of Faith and Writing...

May 24, 2012

She lists some things she’s loving.

Oh, friends. Are you so tired of me saying it’s been quite a week? If...

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...

May 09, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} The Good Spirit

“It is easy to recognize the bitter spirit of wickedness which creates a barrier to...

May 03, 2012

For those of us who need Good News…

On Fridays I usually post a poem that I've read that week or that has...

March 2012

March 12, 2012

Because grace is brave and it always wins

You're 16-years-old and the boy who kisses you beside the light blue Chevy Spectrum under...