Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Micha Boyett

Home
Family, Parenting and Religion

guilt

Select a Category A Deeper Church Beautiful Beautiful and Broken Books Broken Deeper Story Family and the Christian Year Family Life Found Friends Guest Post Invitation Motherhood My Chalkboard One Good Phrase Pinterest Place and Stability Poetry Practicing Benedict Thankful Tuesday The Daily The Mama Monk the Praying Life The Pursuit of Enough This Sacred Everyday Uncategorized Vlog Women and the Church World Vision

Select a Month March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010

March 2014

March 18, 2014

An Invitation to Serve Anyway

I am living one of the busiest seasons of my life right now. As we...

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 29, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Memorial Day Edition

Parents who will drive eight hours and spend money on a hotel room on the...

May 09, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} The Good Spirit

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

January 2012

January 11, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} Seven Times a Day

"The words of the Psalm are: I have uttered your praises seven times during the...

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...

October 2011

October 03, 2011

Big Things

There’s a phrase I hate in the Christian subculture. And it’s one I haven’t heard...

September 2011

September 06, 2011

God’s Deepening Life in Me, Part 2 (aka: All is Balance, All is Gift)

“In everyday life, then, we must hold ourselves in balance before all created gifts insofar...

August 2011

August 18, 2011

Are we raising our children alone?

Last night I stumbled on Jennifer Fulwiler's recent post, "Stay-at-Home Moms Need Help" on the...

August 18, 2011

Are we raising our children alone?

Last night I stumbled on Jennifer Fulwiler's recent post, "Stay-at-Home Moms Need Help" on the...

May 2011

May 09, 2011

What is true.

This is what my husband brought to my bed yesterday morning. He knows that I...

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 07, 2011

Confessing Fear

Yesterday during time of confession in our worship service, I ran my mind over my...

October 2010

October 25, 2010

Stones Splitting

When I sat in front of my spiritual director last Friday, trying to relay to...

October 19, 2010

Boys and Airports

When I packed for the cross country drive that would haul me from Texas, the...

September 2010

September 17, 2010

How not to be ferocious with myself.

This past week I managed to pull a typical Micha move. I’m not naturally organized....

August 2010

August 25, 2010

Loving the City

Yesterday I looked at an apartment I adored in Sausalito, a beautiful, quaint little fishing...

July 2010

July 22, 2010

What’s gonna work? TEAMWORK!

If you don’t automatically start singing the theme song to Wonder Pets when you read...

July 02, 2010

Motherhood: A Blog Fight, a Culture War, and Grace

This week my brother, Jason Boyett, asked me to guest post on his blog, O...

May 2010

May 04, 2010

The Oil Spill? I’m Guilty.

I can’t stop thinking about the oil spill today. Yesterday, I read this blog post...

April 2010

April 22, 2010

Tree Roots

If you had asked me ten years ago which of my brothers would be running...

April 15, 2010

Pied Beauty: The Grouch Reflects

I’ve been wanting to share a little about our current Hopkins poem: why I love...

March 2010

March 12, 2010

Passing the faith

A few weeks ago, I sat around with some fellow mothers discussing the great dilemma...

March 03, 2010

What I was thinking about this morning while I lay awake at 4 am, unable to go back to sleep, due to the massive amount of snot in my head.

Why do I have to be sick for a third day in a row? Aren’t...

February 2010

February 16, 2010

Poetry, Mamas

It was poetry that won me over to words before I even knew a person...