by Elaine Olsen | Jun 28, 2016 | creation, family fun, fellowship with God, grace, joy, knowing God, parenting, peace, thanksgiving, worship
These are days of plenty. This is a season of more-than-enough. This is holy generosity dispensed to me by the King. This isn’t a season of less-than, although as of late I have been tempted to argue otherwise: • Aging parents and accumulating needs making their...
by Elaine Olsen | Sep 19, 2015 | baptism, creation, God's Word, kingdom, Lessons from the Lunchroom
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.” –Genesis 7:17 It happened yesterday … the earth’s baptism became ours. Let me explain. We’re twenty-three days into the academic year. Each...
by Elaine Olsen | Aug 11, 2014 | artistry, contests, creation, friendship
She’s enormously gifted, my friend Melanie Dorsey. She’s a creative in all that she does. Whether lending her heart to words, painting, sewing, cooking, re-purposing furniture and beyond, Melanie pours her all into the project at hand. I don’t think...
by Elaine Olsen | May 30, 2014 | artistry, creation, God's Word, grace, kingdom, peace
“Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” –Hosea 6:3 Surely . . . One of my favorite descriptors attached the...
by Elaine Olsen | May 21, 2014 | courage, creation, fellowship with God, peace, pilgrimage, provision, rest, trust
This has been my saving grace in this season. Mind you, not the grace that saves me from my sin but, rather, the grace that keeps my sanity intact. Whenever the stressors in my life seem too big and my capacity for handling them feels too small, I strap on my tennis...
by Elaine Olsen | Apr 2, 2014 | a quick word, artistry, creation, heaven, worship
“Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.” –Rev. 4:6 Every now and again, God drops diamonds from the sky, dressing his earth with a glimpse of heaven. He did so today, right around dinner time. I wonder if anyone...
