All kinds of imprints exist in life. We all have them. In some ways, we collect them and they shape us. Take the everyday imprint: you wake up from a nap and scramble to get the kids at the bus stop or from school on time, only to have your friend walk up to the…
The Glorious Table is happy to welcome Melanie Dale to the table, with an excerpt from her new book It’s Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn’t Choose (Zondervan, 2016) “about us sitting down together in our shared mess, taking a deep breath, gripping hands, looking the hard stuff in its beady little…
Isaac came first. He was forty-eight hours old when he left the hospital as our son. Our lives were instantly changed by this amazing little gift wrapped in the all-too-familiar hospital blankets and little hat. Elijah came eight and a half months later. He was our son the moment he was born. We didn’t have…
“Wow, you really have your hands full.” “Are you running a daycare?” “Are they all yours?” I heard all these comments during one afternoon of grocery shopping with my children. Four children five and under will do that to people. But what people don’t know as they watch me maneuver through the aisles, one child…