by Elaine Olsen | Jun 28, 2008 | family fun, living God's truth, parenting
Please hop over to Laced With Grace, where I have graciously been asked to be a guest contributor...
by Elaine Olsen | Jun 16, 2008 | grace, parenting, Raising Faith
For Mom & Dad…thank you for raising “Faith Elaine” and for raising the faith of my heart. I love you. “‘He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. When he came to his senses, he said, “How...
by Elaine Olsen | Jun 15, 2008 | family fun, letting go, parenting
We pause today for Father’s Day. I had some perfect thoughts for the occasion…part six of our series “Raising Faith.” It can wait until tomorrow, for seventeen years ago today, I had the privilege of bringing my second son into the world. He...
by Elaine Olsen | Jun 12, 2008 | parenting, Raising Faith
“So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, and said to them, ‘Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the...
by Elaine Olsen | Jun 10, 2008 | parenting, Raising Faith
“Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age, and he made a richly ornamented robe for him. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind...
by Elaine Olsen | Jun 7, 2008 | parenting, Raising Faith
For my mother…who taught me how to find my silence.Nick, 1989Colton, 1991Jadon, 2000 Amelia, 2002“When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to...
