by Elaine Olsen | Aug 17, 2008 | family fun, Raising Faith, surrender
It’s been a year now since we moved our son into his second floor dorm room at Campbell University. Even tonight, those memories come to me with clarity as if lived only moments ago. Everyone told me it would get better—this pain that kicked me in the gut with the...
by Elaine Olsen | Aug 9, 2008 | parenting, Raising Faith, VBS
“So then men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.” (1 Corinthians 4:1-2). It’s official. VBS 2008 has officially reached its end....
by Elaine Olsen | Aug 5, 2008 | family fun, parenting, Raising Faith
For Miss Amelia who crashed onto my scene six years ago this day, teaching me of tender and pink and lovely! Together, we are finding our pretty in Jesus Christ. You are my heart, precious daughter. Happy Birthday. August 5, 2002“How great is the love the Father has...
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 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...
