“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering” (Rom. 12:1–2 MSG). I spent much of the last six months in a deep emotional pit. Not because my life was so hard or so terrible…
“Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.” ~Arthur Ashe Do you ever feel like you need to do more, be more, and after giving it your all, you still fall short? I totally do. I was at this very place about a month ago when a dear friend reminded me…
Last summer my family and I were traveling in the car for what seemed like ages. We took a sanity break partway through the trip, because if I heard “Are we almost there?” one more time, I was going to lose it. The truck stop we chose had a fun little area with cute retro…
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…
When I was invited to join a group of girlfriends at a beach house for a long weekend, the hostess offered to take care of the food. I said, “I’ll bring chocolate.” To me, there’s something intimate about sharing homemade chocolate truffles with friends. And even though I loved the idea of a break from…
Dear friends, When I sat down to write this post, I thought it would be about–well, not this. But I feel compelled to scrap my original topic and share with you what’s been on my heart these past several days. About seven months before we launched The Glorious Table, I instituted a rule for myself…