by Elaine Olsen | Mar 7, 2012 | desert dwelling, Easter, Olive Press, pilgrimage
Once again, my father is making an appearance today to share with us a few thoughts from his Lenten journey. In doing so, he asks us to consider our own pilgrimages to the cross this year. I pray you are blessed by his words, even more so challenged by them: to walk...
by Elaine Olsen | Mar 2, 2012 | a quick word, friendship, words
“What’s this about? Forgive me if I’m prying, but you tossed it out there, and I caught it.” This was her response to me in an e-mail after I left a comment to one of her recent blog posts. It doesn’t much matter the content of my original comment; what...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 29, 2012 | dad, desert dwelling, Easter, Olive Press, pilgrimage
“Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil.” –Luke 4:1-2 The Lenten journey begins in the desert. It is the undiscovered country that invites us...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 26, 2012 | Easter, Olive Press, pilgrimage
“In my Father’s house… ” –John 14:2 In my father’s house. A good place to edit a life. I went home to my father’s (and my mother’s) house this past week to do just that … some editing work. Their lives are less crowded than mine, less noisy and not...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 22, 2012 | dad, Easter, Olive Press, pilgrimage
My father tells me that his earliest days of preaching were spent out in a cow pasture, admonishing the uncooperative beasts to produce more milk or else face the threat of eternal punishment. His technique was a bit rough around the edges, his message all the more,...
