Today is a good day for a funeral. Let me explain why. I am a five-year-plan kind of girl. I set goals, map out a path, pray for God’s blessing, and get moving. Each new phase of life presents an opportunity to make a fresh plan. After high school, I set my sights on my…
The Glorious Table is happy to welcome Logan Wolfram to the table today. Logan is the author of the recently released Curious Faith (David C. Cook, 2016), which explores what is possible with a God who is unlimited, unpredictable, and ever-loving. “There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is…
My husband and I were married August 5, 2000. Since then, we have moved eleven times. We have had many neighbors. Our first neighbors may have influenced our initial bad attitude toward loving the people who live around us. We lived in a questionable neighborhood at the time, in a townhouse with a shared wall. Our neighbor was,…
“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” (Heb. 11:1 NIV) It was spring. Every Wednesday afternoon, I left work and headed north with my bicycle strapped to the back of my car, eager to get in a nine-mile ride on Poplar Creek Trail before the mid-week service…
I’ve always been a fan of the little things. Small, subtle acts of romance or friendship have always been what’s most important to me. There’s beauty in quiet, purposeful love. But I noticed something the other day that took me by surprise: [Tweet “The love we share by accident might be just as important as the…
I love everything about the holidays—the weather, the music, the food, the decorations, the gifts…You get the idea. I also (of course) love my son, Joey. My sweet, amazing, hilarious, ornery, fabulous son. He brings me joy every single day. He also has Down syndrome, and he totally rocks that extra chromosome. It would seem…