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You Have the Power

ByThe Glorious Table May 30, 2020June 11, 2021

“The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of…

The Power of Confession

ByThe Glorious Table May 14, 2020May 11, 2020

He wasn’t ready for it, my sweet husband. We’d just had a check-in with our counselor the day before, and all seemed well. All was well, really. I hadn’t knowingly concealed anything, but crashing in. The weight of weeks and months of comparison and feeling inadequate had literally brought me to my knees on the…

Come Home

ByThe Glorious Table April 16, 2020April 17, 2020

It was one of the most heartbreaking moments I had ever known. Our older son, aged six, had decided that he wanted to run away. Embracing the “Let him do it” attitude, I went with him to pack his things. “I’ll take this,” he said. “Nope,” I said, “you didn’t buy that with your money.”…

Community | Reconciliation | Relationships | Restoration | The Christian Life

The Wildfire of Gossip

ByThe Glorious Table October 21, 2019October 21, 2019

At a prayer chapel on top of a hillside in Redding, California, I sat on the grass overlooking the city just one year after a raging fire swept through, destroying everything in its path. The Carr Fire jumped the Sacramento River, blew through three counties, and took more than a month to contain. Over a…

Let the Truth Be Louder

ByThe Glorious Table August 13, 2019July 27, 2021

“How do you forgive yourself?” A few seconds passed. No one moved to answer. My mind was forming a response. Talking in front of a group is not an activity I relish, but I knew I was going to speak up this time. I didn’t have all the answers, but I had hope and my…

Accountability | Marriage | Relationships | Restoration | Sin

Confessing My Sin and Other Terrifying Things

ByThe Glorious Table July 11, 2019July 11, 2019

There’s an episode of the much-beloved show This is Us wherein (no big spoilers, don’t worry!) Randall and Beth—the married couple viewers love to love—are fighting. In the stress and strain of trying to launch their respective careers, they both bristle with anger, each feeling unseen, underappreciated, less than loved. In a fit of pique,…