\u201cI read Micha\u2019s words and my breathing slows. She gives perspective. And hope. And a refreshing lightness to not take what doesn\u2019t matter too seriously. She revives: When you order the tangle of your days around Him, He untangles you. She moves: The moments all matter.\u2028The daily awareness of the small add up to the whole of your life and her words are like a dawn, stirring you to wake and walk.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Ann Voskamp, author of One Thousand Gifts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI read Micha Boyett\u2019s journey into prayer as any blackbelt sinner will, by which I mean anybody will\u2013with sheer delight at her graceful language and riveting struggle for a hard-won faith. Found<\/em> is a deep, sweet invitation into God\u2019s loving presence. A must read for nonbelievers and believers alike.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014Mary Karr, poet and best-selling author of The Liar\u2019s Club<\/em> and Lit<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis book is stunning. Beautifully written, Micha Boyett\u2019s\u00a0Found\u00a0<\/em>is a penetrating story, rich in humanity and faith, the kind of book that stays with you long after you\u2019ve read its last page. Like Henri Nouwen and Madeline L\u2019Engle, Boyett\u2019s spiritual journey is divinely practical, a relatable and potentially anointed narrative that renews, inspires, and reminds us that we are not lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014Matthew Paul Turner, author of\u00a0Churched\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Our Great Big American God<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\u201cWith this beautiful book, Micha Boyett opens a door to Benedictine spirituality through which regular, busy people can enter and taste, see, smell, hear, and feel what it means to live life as a prayer. This debut sets Boyett apart as one of the most promising new writers of a generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2014Rachel Held Evans, author of\u00a0A Year of Biblical Womanhood<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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\u201cConfession: I cried as I read the last page, sad that my journey with Micha and her prayers and her babies was over. A lovely, honest book.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Shauna Niequist, author of\u00a0Bread & Wine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n
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\u201cI devoured this kind and generous book: Micha is singing the longings of all the tired mother pilgrims. Every word is like motherhood: elegant, earthy, loving, and present.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Sarah Bessey, author of Jesus Feminist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWith grit and honesty, Micha pulls back the curtain on the beauty and liturgy of everyday life as a mother, a wife, and a follower of Jesus. Her memoir is a welcoming, inspiring read.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Sandra McCracken, recording artist, producer and hymn writer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cI defy any parent not to be moved by, and relate to, the raw struggle behind Micha Boyett\u2019s diamond-cut prose. When I finished\u00a0Found\u00a0<\/em>I was compelled to write a gushing confession to Boyett about how she tapped into my own atheist heart. No matter what you believe, you\u2019ll want to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014Lauren Sandler, author of\u00a0Righteous\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0One and Only<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cMicha Boyett is in search for the beauty in the everyday, the prayer that hides itself in dinners and diapers and naps. She is as skilled of a tour guide for Benedictine spirituality as she is for her own story, and in these pages you will find that the sacred has been there all along.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Adam S. McHugh, author of\u00a0Introverts in the Church<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n\u201cReading\u00a0Found\u00a0<\/em>is like taking a deep breath of grace. You\u2019ll hear the echo of your own questions and doubts in the gentle ways Micha Boyett addresses her own, and by the end, you\u2019ll feel the quiet goodness of enough. For anyone who\u2019s ever gotten prayer all tangled up in performance\u2014this one\u2019s for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014Addie Zierman, author of\u00a0When We Were On Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love and Starting Over<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n\u201cMicha Boyett has crafted a memoir that will resonate deeply with every mother. Boyett\u2019s words, so beautifully wrought, ultimately offer hope, comfort, and healing. In Found<\/em>, Boyett gives us a fresh depiction of the truth that if we seek God, we surely will find\u2014or be found\u2014 by him.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014Helen Lee, author of The Missional Mom<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor years, Micha Boyett tried to win God\u2019s approval through her works: first as a would-be missionary, then as a poet, then as youth group leader, and, finally, as a mother. For years, she worked at prayer too. But only after forgetting how to pray did she find its true nature. Prayer, St. Benedict said, is \u2018the work of God.\u2019 Boyett\u2019s lovely book is itself such a prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Karen Swallow Prior, author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMicha Boyett has written a stunningly beautiful spiritual memoir. Found <\/em>will resonate with anyone who has lost sight of who she is after taking on new roles or beginning a new season of adulthood\u2014and anyone who longs for signs of God\u2019s grace and presence. You\u2019ll lose yourself in the story and perhaps, like Boyett, also come to find a new way to approach the divine.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014Jennifer Grant, author of Love You More, MOMumental, Disquiet Time, <\/em>and 12<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTender and intimate, searching and true, Micha Boyett\u2019s journey is extraordinary because it is ordinary. She asks questions that many of us would never dare say aloud. And in her quest for answers, she helps us rediscover the power of prayer and marvel again at the mystery of faith.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Jeff Chu, author of Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian\u2019s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMicha\u2019s quest for a meaningful relationship with God inspires and convicts. It\u2019s rare to find someone with such keen determination to search for an authentic expression of faith. As a Catholic mom of five, I found much to emulate in Micha\u2019s delight with the Benedictine practice of faith\u2014especially ordering our days around prayer. Found <\/em>is a poignant, beautiful treasure.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014Elizabeth Esther, author of Girl at the End of the World: My Escape from Fundamentalism in Search of Faith with a Future<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cMicha Boyett writes with elegance and honesty about the search for sacred space in the midst of life\u2014on the playground, in the kitchen, on the street. Her book speaks powerfully to one of the most perennial questions of all\u2014how do we find God in the day-to-day mess?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2028\u2014Andrea Palpant Dilley, author of Faith and Other Flat Tires: Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cIn Found<\/em>, Micha Boyett tells the small story of her own redemptions, inviting readers into a life of earnest spiritual seeking. Written in reflective bursts of prose mirroring monastic hours and the holy calendar, Boyett has created an account of spiritual resolve, believing that the most important journeys of the heart are the modest ones.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014Dave Harrity, director of ANTLER and author of Making Manifest: On Faith, Creativity, and the Kingdom at Hand<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cIn Found, <\/em>Micha Boyett takes us from motherhood to monasticism and back again with the sensibilities of a poet, the spiritual inquisitiveness of an oblate, and the weariness and delight of a young mother trying to hold on to wonder in the midst of an ordinary and blessed life.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014Amy Julia Becker, author of A Good and Perfect Gift: Faith, Expectations, and a Little Girl Named Penny<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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