by Elaine Olsen | Apr 3, 2020 | Lessons from the Lunchroom
As a classroom teacher, I dealt with my fair share of playground squabbles. He said – she said … he did – she did … on and on around the mulberry bush we would go in order to get to the bottom of said squabble. Occasionally we did arrive at the...
by Elaine Olsen | May 16, 2017 | Lessons from the Lunchroom, letting go
There are seventy-four left. Classroom hours that is. In just a couple of weeks I’ll be saying good-bye to another group of fourth graders. Yes, I’ve been counting down the days … since the third week of school. Somehow calculating the hours way back in August seemed...
by Elaine Olsen | Sep 2, 2016 | calling, faith, Lessons from the Lunchroom, obedience, out of the mouths of babes
“What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe – as the Lord has designed to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only...
by Elaine Olsen | Dec 5, 2015 | God's Word, knowing God, Lessons from the Lunchroom, Scripture
“He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken” –Isaiah 53:8 Their words brought a chill to my bones, while at the same time...
by Elaine Olsen | Nov 8, 2015 | Beyond Cancer's Scars (the story behind the story), cancer, cancer volume 4, Lessons from the Lunchroom, suffering
“When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.” –Genesis 32:25 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Recently, we celebrated Pink-Out Day at our school – an October day dedicated for wearing...
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...
