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July 2012

July 09, 2012

The Real Work (a guest post from Adam McHugh)

Today I'm away with my family at "Cousins Camp." Yes, I'm not even joking. We...

June 2012

June 20, 2012

{This Sacred Everyday} Chuck DeGroat

Chuck DeGroat was one of my pastors at City Church in San Francisco. I owe...

June 11, 2012

When prayer is not cultivated in the quiet

Fifteen years ago, my youth pastor taught me to sit still, to keep my focus,...

June 07, 2012

Good words for a Thursday

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

June 06, 2012

{This Sacred Everyday} Sarah Bessey

Sarah Bessey is my first blog crush to ever turn into a real friend. Getting...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

{This Sacred Everyday} Ed Cyzewski

{This Sacred Everyday} is a collection of posts about encountering God in the plain places,...

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 26, 2012

Lament and Faith and Childhood: Why my kid and I read the sad Psalms

A year and a half ago, when my son first dreamed that a walrus (yes,...

May 17, 2012

Why I didn’t make it to small group last week

It was a good day, but a long one: the house in disarray. Another week...

May 16, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} The Finale: A Beginning

The purpose for which we have written this rule is to make it clear that...

May 15, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: A History. And the First Ever Thankful Tuesday Link-Up Partaaaaay!!!

You might be shocked to hear that Thankful Tuesday did not begin as a somewhat...

May 11, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: W.S. Merwin

This week I started Lauren F. Winner’s Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis. I love...

May 09, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} The Good Spirit

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

May 08, 2012

Thankful: thunderstorms, parties, and the (lack of) electricity

Oh, I’ve missed big spring thunderstorms in Texas, how they hit at 7:30 at night,...

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...

May 02, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} Gentle Piety, Warm Charity

At the entrance to the monastery there should be a wise senior who is too...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Thoughts on Kairos and Epiphany, the ‘unbidden and unexpected’

I've been reading and loving my newest happy discovery, In the Midst of Chaos: Caring...

April 26, 2012

Dishes and Litany and all that Beauty

I live in the litany of the putting away. The clean dishes go onto shelves,...

April 24, 2012

Quoting Thankful

Today for Thankful Tuesday, I want to give you some words I heard over the...

April 18, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} Offering the Child

"If parents who are from the nobility want to offer to God in the monastery...

April 17, 2012

A list of gifts on a Tuesday

For a Saturday date night and one long, happy dinner conversation with the Mister For...

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 28, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} When new clothing is issued

"When new clothing is issued, the old should be immediately returned to be put in...

March 21, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} Receiving Guests, Receiving Christ

"Any guest who happens to arrive at the monastery should be received as we would...

March 15, 2012

Welcomed into the Story

When I stood on the second row at Jamie's church last Sunday and watched her...

March 14, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} A post about monks and errands and eating

"Any who are sent on an errand which will allow them to return to the...

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...

March 07, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} Work and Prayer and Rest

"Idleness is the enemy of the soul. Therefore all the community must be occupied at...