by Elaine Olsen | Oct 12, 2010 | cancer, faith, suffering
I’ve thought a lot about her over the past few days. Thought about her courageous fight against cancer and all the many ways she chose to deal with her disease in that season. Thought about her choices, her responses… the days she chose isolation over population. The...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 8, 2010 | cancer, cancer volume 2, living God's truth
When we first moved here in June, I had it in my heart and mind to lead a new Bible study with the folks at our new church. I didn’t know if it would take… if there would be any interest in their hearts for the same. We have a few takers.In addition, upon our arrival...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 5, 2010 | cancer, cancer video
Today I’ve turned the page in my cancer journey… a new chapter entitled Chemotherapy. There was a great deal of mystery surrounding this event; new chapters are like that. We cannot hold their fullness on the front end. To see it all, hold it all, and taste it all...
by Elaine Olsen | Sep 30, 2010 | cancer, cancer volume 2, prayer
Today, I write to you from a point of sheer determination and will, not from my feelings. If I were operating from my feelings, I’d leave the pen where it resides and forget about yesterday’s prompting in my spirit. Yesterday it would have been easier to write my...
by Elaine Olsen | Sep 28, 2010 | cancer, cancer volume 2, church life, friendship, pain, pilgrimage, suffering
{for Nancy, my “Luke” today} “Do your best to come to me quickly, for Demas, because he loved this word, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. … Only Luke is with me.” (2 Timothy 4:9-11).The words from his pen haunt me now, even though nearly two...
