The Glorious Table is delighted to welcome New York Times Best-selling author Karen Ehman to the table today. This devotion is taken in part from Karen’s newest release, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus (Zondervan, 2016), co-authored with Ruth Schwenk of The Better Mom. “In the morning, when I rise,…
“Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is take a nap.” This tiny morsel of truth might be one of the most profound things my mom has taught me. She gave this advice when I was a type A teenager trying to juggle sports, friendships, GPA goals, and PMS. She repeated it when I…
I stand at the sink, watching the sun come up over the horizon, thinking about my long to-do list for the day. I am a child of God, a wife, and a mother, in that order; a daughter, a friend, and a mentor. I have more than one job, more than one obligation. My dishes…
On our next anniversary, my husband and I will celebrate thirty years of marriage. As I look back on our lifetime of love, I am astonished to find so many years have passed since two young kids went on their first date. We were only sixteen years old and juniors in high school—who would have…
When I lay my head on my pillow at night, I rarely feel like I’ve finished everything on my to-do list. More often, I sing myself to sleep with the laundry list of the incomplete. Homework papers left unsigned, dishes left unwashed, and books left unread. Women have a jumble of demands pressing down on…
Across the street from my house, the road had begun to dip where two concrete sections came together. The sidewalk was sinking too. It happened over a long period of time from settling and the dry Texas soil, so I don’t know exactly when the problem started. But there was no doubt the road and…