by Elaine Olsen | Nov 28, 2011 | cancer, cancer volume 4, death, eternity, friendship, grief
Judith made it home to Jesus on Thanksgiving Day. I’ve been living with her absence since then. Four days is hardly enough time to displace my grief. I don’t have a place to put my grief, not really. I can’t send a casserole to the West Coast… can’t stop by the family...
by Elaine Olsen | Nov 22, 2011 | knowing God, trust, worship
“But as for me, it is good to be near God.” (Psalm 73:28) It is good for me to be near God. When I am not—when I move away from his presence—my eyes, like the Psalmist, are easily fixed on lesser pursuits. Lesser things. Littered and lower things. Things of the world....
by Elaine Olsen | Nov 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Thanks to all of you for the support you offered “peace for the journey” over the past week. I greatly appreciate your kindness and generosity. Amelia just drew the names of two winners, and they are…Nancy @ “The Olive Leaf...
by Elaine Olsen | Nov 8, 2011 | family fun, love, marriage
I love my husband. He speaks life into my weariness and watches over my heart as if it were his own. When the crumbling begins, he comes alongside me to tenderly cradle my pain and to keep it safe from further intrusion. I cannot measure the worthiness of such a gift....
by Elaine Olsen | Nov 4, 2011 | cancer, words, writing
You know the feature at the bottom of blogging posts… the one that suggests other posts “You might also like”? Well, every now and again I go there—click on previous posts I’ve written, some dating back to my beginning days as a blogger in 2008. There are a lot of...
