by Elaine Olsen | Nov 12, 2012 | artistry, friendship, love, marriage, pilgrimage
Life is a journey; love is a dance. So she sings to us as we snake our way down I-40, making the trek back home. I hold his hand as we mark those miles through Appalachia, knowing that he is my home—the place where I feel safe and where the embers still burn with...
by Elaine Olsen | May 28, 2012 | church life, family fun, love, marriage, pain, pilgrimage
“. . . the word of the LORD tested him.” –Psalm 105:19 Sometimes he tells me. Sometimes keeping it inside pins him down . . . pushes him down where the pain hurts deeply and the tears flow easily. Sometimes the world slams cruelly and unfairly into him, moving him to...
by Elaine Olsen | May 10, 2012 | conviction, creation, eternity, freedom, knowing God, living God's truth, love, marriage, surrender
The ocean is still free. So I said to myself this past weekend while spending a few days on the shores of the Atlantic. The ocean is still free. Free to roam. Free to breathe. Free to birth. Free to be. Mankind has tried to control it, has sloppily put its...
by Elaine Olsen | Nov 8, 2011 | family fun, love, marriage
I love my husband. He speaks life into my weariness and watches over my heart as if it were his own. When the crumbling begins, he comes alongside me to tenderly cradle my pain and to keep it safe from further intrusion. I cannot measure the worthiness of such a gift....
by Elaine Olsen | Aug 3, 2011 | cancer, cancer volume 2, living God's truth, marriage
I just wanted him to notice me. It had been an hour since he returned home from his meeting at the church. I spent most of that hour in bed, nursing a pulled muscle in my back. Nursing a heart-hurt as well. Seems as if there have been a few of these kinds of aches...
by Elaine Olsen | Apr 29, 2011 | family fun, marriage
In keeping with the theme of the day…You’re invited to a Royal Wedding… of sorts!{The keepers of the Bride}{Not the Queen Mum but my mum}{Just to prove I was once as skinny as Kate!}{My keepers not having very much fun…}{Grand...
