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...
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 | 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...
by Elaine Olsen | Sep 24, 2010 | cancer, cancer volume 2, faith, family fun, out of the mouths of babes
“But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many...
by Elaine Olsen | Sep 14, 2010 | cancer, cancer volume 2, family fun, out of the mouths of babes, parenting
Who gets to walk mom? It’s the newest “chore” added to the already growing list of chores divided up amongst the six of us who live beneath this roof. And since two of the six are rarely around, “mom-walking” usually falls to one of the other three. Last night,...
