by Elaine Olsen | Aug 29, 2012 | Beyond Cancer's Scars (the story behind the story), book release, courage, living God's truth, pain, suffering
I recognize this girl. Perhaps you do as well. Every now and again, she shows up on the front curb of my heart, marks off her thirty-six inches of personal space, and refuses to budge from her spot . . . not even for the garbage truck. She’ll risk a little stink in...
by Elaine Olsen | May 25, 2012 | cancer, God's Word, living God's truth, suffering, theology
Holding verses . . . you know the kind. The scriptures that hold you, keep you, warm you, and sustain you in your darkest hours. Where would we be . . . where would I be without the wrapping of God’s Word around my heart? Here are a few of the holding verses that...
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 | 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 | Sep 12, 2011 | living God's truth, pain, suffering
“Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel, for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God’s word is not chained.” (2 Timothy 2:8-9). Quietly, she’s entered into my world. A month ago, I...
by Elaine Olsen | Mar 15, 2011 | cancer, living God's truth, suffering
“Six months.” That was Dr. Habal’s response to me last August when I inquired of him how long this cancer treatment process would take. A process that, thus far, has included: three surgeries, eight rounds of chemotherapy, four doctors, countless vials of surrendered...
