As I fill my plate, the odds are stacked against me. Even with the aid of a forgiving waistband, I almost never lick the plate clean at Thanksgiving dinner. This celebration elevates the average dinner’s protein-vegetable-starch trifecta to an Olympic level. Why settle for one kind of potato when you can have baked, mashed, twice…
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…
The little girl leaned close to my daughter’s face, intently staring at her features and her skin. Then she jumped back and looked over at her mom with wide eyes. “Her is creepy!” she declared. My heart tightened in my chest at her words—it wasn’t the first time I’ve cringed or fought back tears at…
Some days stand out as extraordinary. Special celebrations, landmark events, brilliant successes. Weddings, dream job offers, long-awaited events, the trip of a lifetime. They are scattered across the squares on our calendars, adding bursts of vivid color and vivacious flavor to our lives. Lining the weeks and months between these colorful squares are hundreds of…
“Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.” ~Osho Today marks the beginning of my birthday week. What a glorious week it will be, filled with adventures, sweet treats, balloons, streamers, treasure hunts, and oodles of celebration. Even better, this week reminds me that God has graciously given me thirty-seven years to live,…
My husband embodies wonder. Have you ever known someone like that? When he’s driving, he will pull over and get out to take a photo of anything that strikes him as beautiful: clouds, fog, trees, water. When I’m rushed, this tendency of his annoys me. When I am present in the moment, I giggle at…