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Wednesday: Ashes and Death
I’m reposting what I wrote for Ash Wednesday last year, when I was nine months pregnant with Brooksie. It still says what I want to say. I love Ash Wednesday because it reminds me that I will die. I...
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Guest Post: {Family and the Christian Year} Christine Warner on Lent and...
I’m so thrilled I have the chance to introduce you to Christine Warner today. She is one of my favorite gems I’ve discovered here in Austin. Her kindness, wisdom, warmth and bright spirit make her one...
View ArticleFumbling Toward Alleluia
I slowly eased into liturgy. I was reading Anglicans first before I entered the doors of their churches. Madeline L’Engle so moved me that I couldn’t imagine I wouldn’t love to worship beside her at...
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{Practicing Benedict} How Lent should be observed in the monastery
“There can be no doubt that monastic life should always have a Lenten character about it, but there are not many today who have the strength for that. Therefore we urge that all in the monastery...
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The Pursuit of Enough: Slow, Deliberate
Last Friday afternoon, I donned my running clothes and wheezed the mile and a half to August’s school, pushing Brooksie in the double stroller. After I picked him up and we all played awhile in the...
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Thankful Tuesday (before Ash Wednesday)
This, as I head into this “Sabbath Lent”: “Stop for one whole day every week, and you will remember what it means to be created in the image of God, who rested on the seventh day not from weariness...
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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 days he’s still “T” most of the time at home.) It’s a reflection that still feels relevant these two years later....
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Thankful Tuesday: pink flowers, paddle boats at dusk, binoculars in the aquarium
Back in the olden days, I used to complain a lot about San Francisco’s weather. I’m a hot weather, Texas girl, living in a temperate climate. Temperate means on cold days it’s fifty degrees, on warm...
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The Ashes and the Being Made Whole
Last year in Austin, Chris was away for work and I couldn’t get myself together to get the boys to the service and forfeit our baby’s bedtime, knowing I’d spend the whole service nursing and...
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The Pursuit of Enough: Keeping Sabbath
“We rest in order to honor God and his creation, which suggests that not to rest dishonors both.” -Judith Shulevitz, The Sabbath World The thing about Sabbath is that there are still always dishes...
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#FoundGrace: Our Community Lenten Practice. ‘Find yourself found.’*
I worked out Saturday morning with a friend. As we rode home together, the subject of Lent came up. “I just want to emphasize grace this Lent,” she said. “I’ve suffered enough these past few months...
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An invitation into the Mystery of Easter
I’ve mentioned here several times that I’ve been teaching the Godly Play curriculum to third graders at my church. And, just to be honest here, I still don’t know how I feel about Godly Play....
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My Chalkboard and all the other things…
I missed posting my chalkboard last Friday because I wanted to make sure you saw my interview with Peter Enns over at his place. If you haven’t read it yet, I’d love for you to check it out. I’m loving...
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An Invitation to be Lonely
My husband’s out of town this week and we’ve now made it through one time change, one school day (we were thirty minutes late, but who’s judging?), six meals, one stopped-up toilet, one new battery...
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