Fully Present - Micha Boyett<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This morning I can breathe through my nose! My son slept through the night. And my husband didn\u2019t keep me awake with his feverish ickiness. We\u2019re on the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fully Present - Micha Boyett\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This morning I can breathe through my nose! My son slept through the night. And my husband didn\u2019t keep me awake with his feverish ickiness. We\u2019re on the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Micha Boyett\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-03-10T19:36:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"michaboyett\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"michaboyett\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/\",\"name\":\"Fully Present - Micha Boyett\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-03-10T19:36:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-03-10T19:36:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#\/schema\/person\/76bf91736930dab4c916899429801c6f\"},\"description\":\"This morning I can breathe through my nose! My son slept through the night. And my husband didn\u2019t keep me awake with his feverish ickiness. We\u2019re on the\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Fully Present\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/\",\"name\":\"Micha Boyett\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#\/schema\/person\/76bf91736930dab4c916899429801c6f\",\"name\":\"michaboyett\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cf5de016968bf2db1cb8b3bcda2d7e19?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cf5de016968bf2db1cb8b3bcda2d7e19?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"michaboyett\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/author\/michaboyett\/\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fully Present - Micha Boyett","description":"This morning I can breathe through my nose! My son slept through the night. And my husband didn\u2019t keep me awake with his feverish ickiness. We\u2019re on the","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Fully Present - Micha Boyett","og_description":"This morning I can breathe through my nose! My son slept through the night. And my husband didn\u2019t keep me awake with his feverish ickiness. We\u2019re on the","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/","og_site_name":"Micha Boyett","article_published_time":"2010-03-10T19:36:15+00:00","author":"michaboyett","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"michaboyett","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/","name":"Fully Present - Micha Boyett","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-03-10T19:36:15+00:00","dateModified":"2010-03-10T19:36:15+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#\/schema\/person\/76bf91736930dab4c916899429801c6f"},"description":"This morning I can breathe through my nose! My son slept through the night. And my husband didn\u2019t keep me awake with his feverish ickiness. We\u2019re on the","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Fully Present"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/","name":"Micha Boyett","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#\/schema\/person\/76bf91736930dab4c916899429801c6f","name":"michaboyett","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cf5de016968bf2db1cb8b3bcda2d7e19?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cf5de016968bf2db1cb8b3bcda2d7e19?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"michaboyett"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/author\/michaboyett\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":126,"date":"2010-03-10T11:36:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T19:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mommymonk.wordpress.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2010-03-10T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T19:36:15","slug":"fully-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/03\/fully-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Fully Present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

How can I pray like a monk when my day is not like a monk\u2019s? In my hypothesis that monks and moms have a lot in common, there is one major flaw: we have different definitions of community. In monastic life, community is essential; but a monk\u2019s community is following the same life and path as he (or she!) is. There\u2019s someone ringing the bell that calls a monk to prayer. A mother\u2019s community is not called to prayer with her. Her community is having a conversation with Elmo about bubbles while she seeks to pray. It\u2019s not just that we mothers are distracted from prayer by<\/em> our community, it\u2019s that we\u2019re lonely in prayer.<\/p>\n

In one of my attempts to read during August\u2019s naptime instead of falling asleep (which is what my viral body was wanting to do most of this past week), I spent some time with De Caussade, whose book, The Sacrament of the Present Moment<\/em>, I\u2019ve mentioned before<\/a>. Here\u2019s the word that my man Jean-Pierre has for us mamas, struggling to live out our faith at home: \u201cTo live by faith, then, is to live in joy, confidence, certainty and trust in all there is to do and suffer each moment as ordained by God.\u201d He challenges us to face every obstacle \u201ccourageously and with confidence\u201d (22-23).<\/p>\n

My friend Amy, who blogs at Splendor in the Ordinary<\/em><\/a>, shared something with me recently that is challenging me this morning. She said she\u2019d been thinking she should use her time folding laundry as a time for prayer. But her thinking was off. She was seeing prayer as something separate from the work she was doing and her attempts to pray while folding just weren\u2019t working. She couldn\u2019t keep her mind on Christ. In her frustration her husband challenged her that instead of seeing prayer as a way to use her mind during the physical act of folding, she could just let her mind be fully present in the work she is doing, and offer that work to God.<\/p>\n

I wonder how much of my day I\u2019m either not thinking about God or am feeling guilty for not being in constant conversation with God? When all along, I\u2019m seeing prayer as this separate thing from the rest of my life. What if in this past week and a half, I had simply been sick and cared for my family and offered those moments to God, not waiting for a time of health when I could pray in a focused way? What if I could learn to live as De Caussade encourages us to live: fully and joyfully present in each moment (even the uncomfortable or painful ones), offering my life to God in faith, courageously and with confidence?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"