At A Hen's Pace

In honor of the last day of National Poetry month... I just had to post these lines from e.e. cummings! Father Rooster read them in his serm...

Late last night, it became clear that Bantam9 was really sick. He had been coughing a lot, off and on, for nearly a month, but it had just ...

I had given it up for lost weeks ago. I discovered it missing late one night, when I opened the metronome case to check a tempo...and the me...

"All Saints II" by Wassily Kandinsky A saint is not a superman, but one who discovers and lives his truth as a liturgical being. ....

Weeks ago, I began a little series explaining more about the church we're planting, and why we believe people will come and are coming t...

Can you believe it is November 1? Where did October go? I have to confess that autumn is my least favorite season. I love the beauty of th...

I just realized I better get this post published before September is over!! Since I started blogging, I've learned so much more about us...

Thoughts from my friend Tonia : We are leaving tracks for the ones who come behind. Here in these pages lie our stories, the playbook of ou...

Saturday I was in the car running errands, and I took advantage of the time alone to pray and sing aloud. My prayer life lately has been c...

Today, enjoy this article by Ann Voskamp . It begins: They say a mother wears an apron and a myriad of hats. I say she wears a collar too...

"No gift unrecognized as coming from God is at its own best... when in all gifts we find Him, then in Him we shall find all things....

" No distinction was made between the sacred and the everyday...their life was all one piece. It was all sacred and all ordinary....

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at ...

A few days ago, I shared one of my favorite sections from The Pace of a Hen (Josephine Moffett Benton, 1961). There Ms. Benton described ...

I've been promising that I would post some more quotes from The Pace of a Hen (Josephine Moffett Benton, 1961). Here's one of my f...

The Headmistress is also a fan of Josephine Moffett Benton's 1961 book, The Pace of a Hen ! In her archives are a number of posts relat...

I got up early, before the kids, to be silent for an hour. I sat on the deck and listened to the birds and watched the squirrels. In the s...

...in my e-mailbox: It is always easier to add to the noise of the world than to be silent. Silence is a very precious thing--"There wa...

My dear daughter, I remember you telling me how much the multiplicity of your affairs weighs on you; and I said to you that it is a good opp...

Remember when I blogged about The Quotidian Mysteries --the idea of work as worship? Ann at Holy Experience has been meditating on the same...