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Micha Boyett

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September 2010

September 07, 2010

Provision

I've been working through a small devotional guide written by my spiritual director, Debby Bellingham,...

August 2010

August 20, 2010

The Prayer of the Hearth

So the book on my bedside table (if I had one…I should actually say: the...

August 11, 2010

Making Room for God

This afternoon during August’s nap time I read Psalm 10 while I curled up under...

July 2010

July 21, 2010

Great Silence

Making the shift from normal life into a Benedictine monastery is shocking. It’s frightening. It...

July 12, 2010

Prayer and the Stream

I’ve spent my life loving the mountains. Growing up, if the Boyetts took a vacation,...

July 11, 2010

Worship, breastfeeding, and shifting that paradigm

Dear friends, I'm writing from a cozy cabin in the mountains of Colorado. I've spent...

July 07, 2010

The Cynical Spirit vs The Childlike Spirit?

This past Tuesday morning I faced my hiccupping, wet faced two-year-old nose to nose. It...

June 2010

June 30, 2010

Breathing The Jesus Prayer

I met with my spiritual director, Debby, yesterday morning. Have I mentioned yet that she’s...

June 28, 2010

Remember

Yesterday, the sermon was about Communion and how it challenges us towards community, memory and...

June 22, 2010

Adjusting

It’s been one week since we arrived home from a ten-day trip out east to...

June 03, 2010

Lord, Lord, Lord.

Friends, This process of writing to you almost every day is a strange one. And...

June 02, 2010

A Living Incompleteness

I’ve recently begun reading A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World by...

May 2010

May 27, 2010

An Invitation to Believe

I mentioned briefly last week that I’ve begun meeting with a spiritual director, the concept...

May 12, 2010

Gently, Truthfully, Simply

We should speak gently and seriously with words that are weighty and restrained. We should...

April 2010

April 26, 2010

How the words fall in.

A disciple asks the Rabbi, “Why does the Torah tell us to ‘place these words...

April 14, 2010

Joy: Lasting, Satisfying

There’s something so comforting about sitting in my “bedroom,” the one I grew up in,...

April 12, 2010

Becoming Small

Glee is my dream show. I love musicals. I love silliness. And I love high...

April 07, 2010

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas

When I first began to follow the seasons of the Church, I was surprised to...

April 03, 2010

Easter Sunday

Descending Theology: The Resurrection From the far star points of his pinned extremities, cold inched...

April 03, 2010

Holy Saturday

April 01, 2010

Good Friday

Christ's Passion Sure we're trained to his suffering, sure the nine-inch nails, and so forth....

April 01, 2010

Maundy Thursday

Descending Theology: The Garden We know he was a man because, once doomed, he begged...

March 2010

March 31, 2010

Wednesday, Holy Week

Descending Theology: Christ Human Such a short voyage for a god, and you arrived in...

March 30, 2010

Thankful Tuesday, Holy Week

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week always feel a little unsettling to me. I...

March 24, 2010

What Endures

Lord God, protector of all who trust in you, Without you nothing is strong, nothing...

March 10, 2010

Fully Present

This morning I can breathe through my nose! My son slept through the night. And...

March 09, 2010

Introducing…Thankful Tuesday!

In my earnest, outgoing, college-is-like-church-camp! freshman year, I met with two friends at seven every...

March 05, 2010

Examining the Ordinary

This has not been a week of Benedictine bliss. In fact, I’ve been a failure...

March 02, 2010

Inefficiency and the Selfish Mama?

Since we’ve had a such an interesting discussion on hospitality over the past few days,...

February 2010

February 26, 2010

Let’s talk hospitality.

Friends, I know you’re out there. At least, I hope you’re out there. I was...