The Glorious Table is pleased to welcome Patricia Beal to the table today. Patricia is the author of A Season to Dance, which is her first novel. It’s that time of the year—balloons, flowers, photos, trophies, medals, and happy Facebook posts. Lots of happy Facebook posts. I despise awards assembly season. With a passion. If…
“Motherhood is a partnership with God.” ~Harold Lundstrom Sometimes being a mama is just plain hard. I don’t mean middle-of-the-night feedings, sleep deprivation, or terrible twos hard. I’m talking about the “hard on a mama’s heart” kind of hard. Author Elizabeth Stone said, “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to…
As summer transitioned into fall a few years ago, I found myself with tears in my eyes because the milk I placed in my grocery cart had a September 5 expiration date. They will both be gone by September 5, I thought sorrowfully, trying to blink away the tears. The expiration date on the milk…
I used to hold onto everything as tightly as I could–material possessions, places, talents, jobs, relationships. I attempted to maintain control, terrified I might let something slip through the cracks. I strove for perfection and grieved each and every change, failure, and loss as a sign of my own powerlessness. Then, as I became a…
The Christian mother has boundless opportunities to use her gifts and abilities. But how is she to know what God wants her to do with all the opportunities to serve Jesus and others in our busy and fast-paced world? It’s enticing to choose admirable opportunities to serve, even though it might mean neglecting our God-given…
I recently experienced a situation that both broke my heart as a momma and grew me as a daughter of Christ. At my son’s fifth birthday party, one of the kids who was a guest got frustrated, tried to break one of my son’s birthday toys, and then told him he was going to kill…