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Finding Satisfaction in Your Work

ByThe Glorious Table

On Monday mornings, before I get dressed for work, you’ll find me wearing a T-shirt that says, “Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Repeat.” The words on my coffee mug express my mood: “I don’t feel very worky today.”  (Yes, “worky” is found in several dictionaries, but you can’t use it in Scrabble.) Once I arrive at work,…

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Our Good Gifts

ByThe Glorious Table

“That you can see these things when she plays is a gift. Never try to become its master, but serve it. Allow [the gift] to be what the Maker meant it to be.” (Nia Igiby, The Wingfeather Saga) The C written atop my first college English paper dumbfounded me. After recovering from the shell shock…

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An Island in the World

ByThe Glorious Table

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. (Col. 3:2 ESV) There’s a common admonition among Christians, to “be in the world but not of the world,” but you may wonder what, exactly, this means. Does it mean we don’t engage the world, that we avoid anyone and…

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Count the Cost

ByThe Glorious Table

And whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all…