Two years ago this week, The Glorious Table was a newborn site. We had no idea how long it would live, where it would lead, who it might impact. All we had was a shared vision for encouraging women to embrace the life God has for them–a life of abundance, joy, growth, and confidence in…
Last year an image of a teenage boy standing at a flagpole alone made its way around the globe, the story garnering the attention of our nation. A high school junior had chosen to pray in front of his school all alone, in plain view of onlookers and passersby. One of those onlookers posted about…
This past Lenten season, I decided to embark on the 21-day The Daniel Fast (www.thedanielfast.com, Susan Gregory). When I “give up” a single item (coffee), I find ways to compensate (tea). Or I choose a sacrifice (chocolate) that can be accomplished without drawing on Christ. I needed something that would invade my whole day, every…
Throughout childhood, my answer to, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” was always, “A cheerleader.” Long before the Dallas Cowboys hired cheerleaders, that was all I ever wanted to be. I was convinced no one wanted to be a cheerleader more than I did. In my sophomore year of high school…
Let pleasing God become bigger than pleasing people. Wait. What? How was it that, mere days after my fortieth birthday, I could be knocked upside the head by one sentence, convicted of something I’d been doing my entire life? But there it was. Staring back at me on my computer screen. It was random. Just…
Do you ever jump right into trying to achieve a goal you’re excited about, pouring everything you have into it? You’re met with obstacles, yet you continue to persevere. Then someone achieves the same goal before you do. It also looks as though they achieved it with minimal effort. You instantly feel deflated; the excitement…