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January 2014

January 28, 2014

Invitation: One Word for 2014

There’s a scene in my book where I’m praying with my spiritual director, Debby....

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...

November 01, 2013

Jesus in Real Life (A Repost for All Saints Day)

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

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...

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...

September 12, 2013

Becoming Madrina: Relationships and World Vision

“Heydi Andréa,” her mother says in the way only mothers can. Those two words, the...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

I’m going to Guatemala. Wanna come along?

The first time I ever experienced poverty, I was a seventeen-year-old, almost-freshman in college, adventuring...

June 2013

June 12, 2013

One Good Phrase: Micha Boyett (All will be well)

These are the days of holding the deep portions. The days where your husband walks...

June 05, 2013

One Good Phrase: Katie Noah Gibson (With all kinds of doubts)

I first bonded with Katie Noah Gibson over our similar lives, both West Texas girls...

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 19, 2013

On beauty and ruin…

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

April 03, 2013

One Good Phrase: Kristin Tennant (Tomorrow is a new day)

Kristin Tennant is sharp, generous, and brave. She is one of those rare blogging friends...

December 2012

December 17, 2012

Light Your Candles Quietly: Keeping Advent with Mary, Vol. 3

Vol. 3 - Defiantly Demanding Redemption “In sober fact there is little romance or beauty...

December 12, 2012

These Sacred Everydays

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

December 10, 2012

Light Your Candles Quietly: Keeping Advent with Mary, Vol. 2

An Invitation to Ponder When I first started asking God and myself what it...

November 2012

November 15, 2012

What I am not.

From Dale Bruner's The Gospel of John: A Commentary, on John chapter 1, verse 2...

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...

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...

August 2012

August 20, 2012

Waiting

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

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...

May 07, 2012

Melancholia: Why I wish I hadn’t seen it and why I’m sort of glad I did.

Three weeks ago my husband and I watched the movie Melancholia. If you haven’t heard...

April 2012

April 19, 2012

A ‘Mother Letter’ for the Mamas

Dearest Mamas, When I was pregnant with my first child, my friend Emily (one year...

April 11, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} Do not disappoint me…

"When the decision is made that novices are to be accepted, then they come before...

April 10, 2012

Guest Post: The Creaking, Squeaking Altar that Moves

I'm thrilled to interrupt our regularly scheduled Thankful Tuesday to bring you some words from...

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...

March 06, 2012

Thankful Hopeful

Living in Texas where sunsets look like this from the back deck Rocking side by...

February 2012

February 06, 2012

{Practices of Parenting Carnival} In Which I Believe in Family Dance Parties

My family had one living area in our three bedroom ranch house. It had a...

January 2012

January 23, 2012

For Brooksie, upon his turning ten months old.

You turned ten months old last Tuesday. Almost every other month of your living, we've...

December 2011

December 01, 2011

World AIDS Day: Turn it Red

Ten years ago, as a 22 year-old, I returned home from one month in Kenya...