by Elaine Olsen | Feb 22, 2012 | dad, Easter, Olive Press, pilgrimage
My father tells me that his earliest days of preaching were spent out in a cow pasture, admonishing the uncooperative beasts to produce more milk or else face the threat of eternal punishment. His technique was a bit rough around the edges, his message all the more,...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 19, 2012 | Easter, Olive Press, pilgrimage, prayer, suffering
My heart is greatly troubled, stirred up and unsettled. Only God can untangle this one. Only God can bring order to confusion. Only God can make sense out of chaos. Only God can take what man has meant for evil and make it count for his eternal good. Only God. How...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 13, 2012 | conviction, freedom, living God's truth, pilgrimage
“The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and...
by Elaine Olsen | Jan 19, 2012 | cancer volume 4, faith, family fun, parenting, pilgrimage
I’ve been thinking about the conversation we had back in August. The “I’m going back to college, and I still don’t know what I want to do with my life” conversation. Not an unfamiliar conversation between us. It surfaces on occasion, more so now that he is mid-way...
by Elaine Olsen | Dec 12, 2011 | christmas, discipleship, living God's truth, peace, pilgrimage
“A voice of one calling: ‘In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; Make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, Every mountain and hill made low; The rough ground shall become level, The rugged places a plain. And… The...
by Elaine Olsen | Dec 6, 2011 | dad, family fun, grace, parenting, pilgrimage
My dad is the funniest man I know. Not the stand-up comedic kind of funny, but the everyday conversation kind of funny. As the man walketh, so does his humor. Those of you who know him well, know this to be true. Those of you who know me well, know this also to be...
