by Elaine Olsen | Mar 24, 2010 | Bible Study, living God's truth, packing up, pilgrimage, thanksgiving
“Oh good gravy!”(My newest expression used in times of frustration. Please don’t tell me there’s something wrong with it; I could have said something else, have often said something else, but please don’t take my “good gravy” away from me. Thanks to Jet and Cord,...
by Elaine Olsen | Mar 21, 2010 | church life, faith, living God's truth, peace, pilgrimage
Loose ends. We all live with some. I don’t imagine there is a day that goes by when a loose thread or two don’t dangle their insistence before our eyes and within our hearts, thereby challenging us to trust in something bigger, Someone bigger, to weave them into the...
by Elaine Olsen | Mar 17, 2010 | Bible Study, calling, God's voice
Yesterday was a good day. I can’t let today go by without chronicling the truth of my yesterday. It would be easy to forego the writing… to let yesterday’s goodness linger as sweet remembrance in my mind, but I don’t trust my mind as much as I used to. My mind is...
by Elaine Olsen | Mar 15, 2010 | a quick word, family fun
Apparently she has a re-telling issue. My daughter. Unable to re-tell the events of the story she’s just read. Beginning, middle, and end mean very little to my precious little seven-year-old, at least that is what her teacher told me in a conference this afternoon (a...
by Elaine Olsen | Mar 12, 2010 | breakfast on the beach with Jesus
“… Then he said to him, ‘Follow me!’” (John 21:19b) Today I finish this series with you, knowing that what God has seeded into my heart over these past few weeks of writing will yield some fruit down the road. I believe him for fruit—trust him with the time I’ve...
