by Elaine Olsen | Jan 26, 2011 | cancer, out of the mouths of babes, parenting, pilgrimage
“‘You know the way to the place where I am going.’ Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’ Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’” {John 14:4-6} ...
by Elaine Olsen | Jan 19, 2011 | cancer, grief, pain, suffering
This is an important post for me. I want to go somewhere with my thoughts—a “place” I’ve been dwelling at in recent days. I don’t think I’m alone in my dwelling, for I believe that there are many of us who’ve pitched our tents a time or two or ten at this address,...
by Elaine Olsen | Jan 17, 2011 | cancer, friendship
I’m a woman in need of connection… a person who needs people. It matters not the number of people. What matters is presence… what my friend, Alicia Chole, would say “the present of presence.” We give big when we give ourselves to someone else, for the giving of self...
by Elaine Olsen | Jan 13, 2011 | cancer, cancer video, montana, video
Few words today… plenty on the video. This is my crossing over day, and while I’ll spend the next few weeks with the same side effects and many more months being restored to full health, I feel closer now than I have in the previous five months. To God be...
by Elaine Olsen | Jan 10, 2011 | cancer, faith
And to think, I almost didn’t publish the previous post. Why? Well, I was a bit weepy and pitiful while writing it, and I learned a long time ago that strong emotion isn’t always the best leader when it comes to reasoned thinking. In this case, I think, perhaps,...
