by Elaine Olsen | Jun 6, 2013 | family fun, friendship, grace, hunger, kingdom, letting go, packing up, parenting, pilgrimage
It’s not much. Just an old table with two even older chairs. I spied them alongside Hwy. 70 while winding my way home from my annual run to the eye doctor. My U-turn came as no surprise to my eldest son who made the trek with me; after twenty-four years of being my...
by Elaine Olsen | May 6, 2013 | freedom, letting go, living God's truth, obedience
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” –Isaiah 43:18-19 It’s time to throw-away the blue sweater (modeled here by mini-me, a.k.a. Miss Amelia). How do I know the time has come? I...
by Elaine Olsen | Nov 16, 2012 | holiness, letting go, living God's truth, obedience, surrender
I have a few minutes this morning (just a few . . . we’re in the middle of percents and decimals over here; for the record, I didn’t understand them when I was in the 6th grade; at forty-six years old, I can’t say my grasp is much better, but I digress. Forgive me; it...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 16, 2012 | authenticity, calling, faith, freedom, letting go, living God's truth, obedience, wholeness
Siix years ago in my dreaming, I didn’t plan on my current reality. The life I’m living today wasn’t the life I was dreaming about in my yesterday. Six years ago . . . I had just written my first book / Bible study about the prophet Nehemiah and was sure it would be...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 25, 2011 | cancer, cancer volume 3, faith, family fun, letting go, living God's truth, out of the mouths of babes, parenting, surrender
I watched her out of the corner of my eye. Tears were forming in hers. We’d just settled into our evening watch of American Idol when I noticed her sadness. The “boys” present in the room shrugged it off as insignificant. Boys are like that sometimes, not seeing past...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 19, 2011 | cancer, faith, letting go, living God's truth
Today’s walk outside has been a beautiful gift to me. Today, I left the iPod behind, and for the first time in a long time, I could hear my thoughts think. Thoughts about… winter’s work and the wind’s breath. Winter’s work. I saw evidence of it while making my trek...
