anxiety

Several months ago, I emailed my former spiritual director, Debby, and asked her to help...

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

I know it’s almost February. But, if you don’t mind having a little grace with...

  Hi. It feels a little strange to sit here writing something out to say...

Well, we all knew this day would come. It's our very last week of One...

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

When I was five months pregnant with Brooksie, I was barely one year into our...

I’ve been grinding my mouth guard down to a thin layer of plastic. All night,...

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

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

  I had a breakdown freak-out sobfest last week. I feel like if you’re gonna...

“Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says,...

Vol. 1 - An invitation to enter Advent attentive and aware   August and I...

Yesterday was August’s first day at his new preschool. He was scared. And it is...

Send out your light and our truth, that they may lead me, and bring me...

On September 19, Chris and I are going to Italy. Without our kids. And we’re...

We did it. The movers showed up Friday morning and took all our possessions away...

Andrea Palpant Dilley has led the writer's group I've been part of at my church...

It's Sunday and I’m sitting on the very last row of a jet moving thousands...

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

I'm a stressed mom. I'm stressed too often. I worry that August's most prominent memory...

I read this words in bed yesterday morning, in my Christmas pajama pants (yes, I'm...

You arrive at church 30 minutes late and take another 30 to lower your raised...

It's Sunday morning, New Year's Day, and for the first New Year's ever, I'm not...

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen...

Welcome to Mama:Monk’s weekly Wednesday series examining St. Benedict’s Rule and what it has meant to me...

I know, I know. How clichéd is that picture? But I took it myself. I...

We all have our crazy-makers. Mine is email, and phone calls, and thank you notes—basically...

Yesterday morning I woke to a quiet (and sort of creepy) almost three-year-old standing beside...

Why does “full term” have to feel so…full? I once read a lovely book (which...