The Glorious Table is happy to welcome Melanie Dale to the table, with an excerpt from her new book It’s Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn’t Choose (Zondervan, 2016) “about us sitting down together in our shared mess, taking a deep breath, gripping hands, looking the hard stuff in its beady little…
The little girl leaned close to my daughter’s face, intently staring at her features and her skin. Then she jumped back and looked over at her mom with wide eyes. “Her is creepy!” she declared. My heart tightened in my chest at her words—it wasn’t the first time I’ve cringed or fought back tears at…
“Every summer has a story.” ~Unknown Dear summer, I love you. You have given me weekends at the lake, endless dinners on the grill, pool dates with friends, scattered flip flops everywhere, bonfires, sticky s’mores, and so much more. You have nursed my broken heart more than once through the years with gifts of sunshine…
We are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.” ~Ronald Reagan I thought maybe I would have an amazing story from somewhere in my military wife life that I could tell that would exemplify what these words from Ronald Reagan mean to me. The truth is, I…
Most people immediately connect the word testimony with witnesses sworn to “tell the truth and nothing but the truth” in courtrooms. Me? I think of testimonies that revealed God as ultimate truth to a young girl. My father was a church pastor when Sunday evening services and Wednesday night prayer meetings were still standard in…
Few circumstances are more terrifying than being unable to breathe. I truly believe the inability to draw productive breath yields a level of panic like no other occurrence. Unless you are watching your child struggle for air. That raises the bar exponentially. About a month ago, we were eating with friends at a local restaurant….