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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 18, 2014

An Invitation to Serve Anyway

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

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...

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...

February 18, 2014

An Invitation to Make Space

A couple of weeks ago I shared how, after a difficult season of living...

February 11, 2014

An Invitation to Curiosity

“All my childhood, I told my parents that I wanted to grow up and live...

February 10, 2014

Sunsets and Droughts

Today I'm over at Deeper Story thinking about the complications of gratefulness: how sometimes beauty...

February 04, 2014

Invitation: Faith-Joy

I woke up yesterday morning, pulled out my husband's giant commentary of Matthew, and began...

February 03, 2014

Good Words for a Monday

A prayer we prayed (I don't know where it's from) on our church's Epiphany...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Time and Priorities

On Tuesday, Ann Voskamp posted How to Find Time and Space for the Life You...

January 28, 2014

Invitation: One Word for 2014

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

December 2013

December 02, 2013

Light Your Candles Quietly: Keeping Advent with Mary, Vol. 1 (A Repost)

This week I'm working to finish edits on my book. In my absence, I'll...

October 2013

October 21, 2013

Courage to love

The thing about humans is that in order to understand one another, we must sacrifice...

August 2013

August 14, 2013

One Good Phrase: Diana Trautwein (One day at a time)

I wish Diana Trautwein and I lived in the same town. If we did, I...

August 01, 2013

Accidental Simplicity (A guest post for D.L. Mayfield)

My friend D.L. Mayfield has been hosting a series at her blog about "Downward...

July 2013

July 24, 2013

One Good Phrase: Jennifer Grant (…For a Reason)

I've only begun to get to know Jennifer Grant this year, but in these several...

July 11, 2013

To St. Benedict, on his feast day (A repost from last year)

My Dearest Benedict, You and I didn’t meet in the regular way. I wasn’t making...

May 2013

May 16, 2013

Pentecost and my new post at a Deeper Church

I have a new post up at a Deeper Church about Pentecost, the daily physical...

April 2013

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...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

Holy Week

Friends, I like for us to spend our Holy Week at Mama Monk quietly, contemplatively....

March 08, 2013

My Chalkboard: Sarum Primer, 1527

Sarum Primer, 1527 (I discovered this via Phyllis Tickle in my daily prayer book, The...

March 04, 2013

The Pursuit of Enough: Remembering the Thankful

I can flip the switch from Resting Weekend Micha to Anxious Snap-Mouth Micha in...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

The Pursuit of Enough: Keeping Sabbath

“We rest in order to honor God and his creation, which suggests that not to...

February 22, 2013

My Chalkboard: Jean-Pierre DeCaussade

Love this: "Mystify us, arouse us and confuse us." If only we prayed that way...

February 21, 2013

The Ashes and the Being Made Whole

Last year in Austin, Chris was away for work and I couldn’t get myself...

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 12, 2013

Thankful Tuesday (before Ash Wednesday)

This, as I head into this “Sabbath Lent”: “Stop for one whole day every...

February 11, 2013

The Pursuit of Enough: Slow, Deliberate

Last Friday afternoon, I donned my running clothes and wheezed the mile and a half...

February 07, 2013

A letter to St. Benedict, on his feast day (a repost)

Friends, I've been doing a lot of reading about our favorite, St. Benedict, this week...

January 2013

January 17, 2013

The Spiritual Practice of Slowness

I was strangely moved by that almost final scene in the movie Lincoln, when the...