by Elaine Olsen | Aug 21, 2019 | ancients, death, friendship, heaven
We said good-bye to her last evening. Elegantly adorned in a deep fuchsia dress with her silvery, full coiffure swept perfectly to her right side, Inez Perkins was laid to rest in a pecan-wood coffin next to her beloved Calbert. During the service, she was surrounded...
by Elaine Olsen | Aug 9, 2012 | ancients, faith, pilgrimage
“This is what the LORD says: ‘Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.’” –Jeremiah 6:16 In searching through the old, I find something new. And so I went there...
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 | Apr 5, 2009 | ancients, church life, communion, Easter, living God's truth, pilgrimage, trust
Then Jesus told them, ‘You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. The man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going. Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you...
by Elaine Olsen | Aug 26, 2008 | ancients, friendship
“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13).That which is the greatest remains my difficult hard.Love, and the giving and receiving therein.It should come easily. It should be the overflow of my heart...
by Elaine Olsen | Aug 13, 2008 | ancients, friendship, living God's truth
For my Tuesday ancients. I’ve written of you before, but today you caught my heart again. I love you all! “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.” (Hebrew 11:1-2). I ate...
