by Elaine Olsen | Oct 25, 2009 | church life, living God's truth, sundays, worship
9:10 AM. Wal-Mart. Check-out line. This morning. Sunday morning. I didn’t want to be there. I try and avoid Sundays and Wal-Mart, but when my children informed me that today was the day they’d be packing their Samaritan’s Purse, Christmas shoeboxes during the Sunday...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
For all of God’s missionaries, at home and abroad, who carry his candle to dispel the world’s darkness. “If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 19, 2009 | a quick word, a quick word marriage, faith, family fun, marriage, trust
I was fully prepared to write another post today, a post that God has graciously allowed me to tuck away for a season; maybe forever. Today he gave me a “pass” on something. Today his favor has come to me and my household in tangible measure, and I am humbled and...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 12, 2009 | a quick word, living God's truth, prayer
People sometimes ask me how they can pray for me. Not often, but every now and again. I’m very appreciative when they do because I know there is deep sincerity attached to the asking. There’s something about having my name lifted before the throne of heaven that...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 10, 2009 | courage, freedom, peace, strength
I want to tell you about a real hero tonight; not the one getting all the press in the media for his efforts at the peace-making process. My hero sits alone this evening, on the front porch of her home in a rocking chair, reeling from the extreme after-effects of...
