by Elaine Olsen | May 26, 2010 | a quick word, book release, God's voice, grace, living God's truth, rest, trust
“You hold the flowers, Elaine, I’ll handle the suitcase.”This is what God wants me to know this day, nearly a year after he impressed it into my soul. It was the statement that led to this…Most everything about the front cover of my book was intentionally planned.The...
by Elaine Olsen | Jul 3, 2009 | a quick word, family fun, freedom, living God's truth, rest, sanctity of life
“‘… in quietness and trust is your strength.’” (Isaiah 30:15). Contentment.How long has it been since you’ve experienced the sheer joy of resting in the contentment of a moment?I saw it in my daughter the other day. I took a picture.With a good book in one hand, a...
by Elaine Olsen | May 29, 2009 | a quick word, friendship, rest
I see Christ’s face before me tonight. There is a deep need in me to do so. My world is spinning fast, and my commitments are firm in their insistence. I haven’t slept well for days, and my nerves harbor on the edge of collapse. I am tired, friends. The kind of tired...
by Elaine Olsen | May 24, 2009 | a quick word, faith, family fun, graduation, rest
Good days.I don’t know if we get a quota on them—like one good day a week … a month … a year … until we reach the max, and then we’re done. I know that there have been seasons in my life that seemed to portion out like that. Times when no matter how I turned things,...
by Elaine Olsen | Mar 12, 2009 | friendship, grace, living God's truth, pilgrimage, rest
For Joy… may you find some good soil with our good God this day. “Then he told them many things in parables, saying: ‘A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 22, 2009 | family fun, friendship, living God's truth, rest, trust
We’re not going to win a single game this season. I don’t have to imagine otherwise. It’s just one of those years. The forecast came about mid-way through our first game. After fifteen years of doing this “thing” called rec sports, youth sports, middle school and high...
