by Elaine Olsen | Oct 26, 2010 | ancients, friendship
I miss them this morning; thought about them throughout the morning… those “ancients” who will gather in a short while to do lunch without me. For six years we gathered as friends around a Tuesday table, usually at the local pizza place. It wasn’t so much about the...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 24, 2010 | cancer, cancer volume 4, courage, discipleship, faith, God's voice, Holy Spirit, living God's truth, night visits, pilgrimage, trust
I’ve been stuck recently. Hung up on and hunkered down in a thought or two regarding a particular spoken word from Jesus. A promise. One that doesn’t compute with my internal, spiritual compass. One that has always confused me, challenged me, asked me to consider...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 19, 2010 | cancer, cancer video, faith, living God's truth, pilgrimage, video, worship
“When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped.” (2 Chronicles 20:24). My spirit is moved today in a strong direction—a navigational pull that leads...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 16, 2010 | cancer
I noticed some sparse, brittle sprigs of hair in the tub after my bath yesterday morning. Accordingly, a decision was made. My husband tells me that I am brave.I tell him that I am free.And that I am grateful for my numbered hairs and for my...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 14, 2010 | cancer, cancer volume 2, family fun
It arrived in the mail today. A well-timed, undeserved kindness from a good friend. A third-place ribbon of a first-place portrait of two first-rate boys. My boys. Two sons digging their way through the soil on a Bolivian mountainside, investing their hearts into a...
