by Elaine Olsen | May 5, 2012 | faith, living God's truth, pilgrimage, trust
“What… do you just walk all day long?” So asked my neighbor while pulling out of his driveway this morning. I broke routine with my walking today. Normally, I wait until the afternoon before hitting the pavement. That’s when he usually walks, our paths almost always...
by Elaine Olsen | Apr 23, 2012 | cancer, cancer volume 4, living God's truth, pilgrimage, strength, suffering, surrender, wholeness
Being a survivor isn’t about defeating the cancer. Being a survivor is about defeating the silence. That’s what I told a group of cancer survivors last Sunday night at a Relay for Life banquet. It’s what I’ve come to believe. To survive cancer is to survive the...
by Elaine Olsen | Apr 4, 2012 | dad, desert dwelling, Easter, grace, Olive Press, pilgrimage
This is one of my favorite stories of grace. It’s a good one to walk us home to Easter. I’ve grown up hearing it, time and again, and it never fails to stir my heart in the deepest way. Thank you, dad, for sharing it with us, and thanks to my Grandpa Al...
by Elaine Olsen | Mar 7, 2012 | desert dwelling, Easter, Olive Press, pilgrimage
Once again, my father is making an appearance today to share with us a few thoughts from his Lenten journey. In doing so, he asks us to consider our own pilgrimages to the cross this year. I pray you are blessed by his words, even more so challenged by them: to walk...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 29, 2012 | dad, desert dwelling, Easter, Olive Press, pilgrimage
“Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil.” –Luke 4:1-2 The Lenten journey begins in the desert. It is the undiscovered country that invites us...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 26, 2012 | Easter, Olive Press, pilgrimage
“In my Father’s house… ” –John 14:2 In my father’s house. A good place to edit a life. I went home to my father’s (and my mother’s) house this past week to do just that … some editing work. Their lives are less crowded than mine, less noisy and not...
