by Elaine Olsen | Dec 15, 2017 | dad, family fun, God's voice, knowing God, ministry life, pilgrimage, right words; right timing, words
I had a dream last night. So strong in its witness, I needed to “get it down” on paper this morning. Perhaps in doing so, it will get down to a deeper place inside of me so that I might more fully live it outside of me. The sermon that was never heard. Allow me to...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 1, 2016 | conviction, discipleship, fellowship with God, God's voice, God's Word, kingdom, living God's truth, ministry life, obedience, truth, words
My students and I have just finished reading Song of the Brook by Matlida Nordtvedt. As literary prose goes, it doesn’t measure up to the classics, but it does serve a purpose in our classroom. It’s one book in a continuing series of books presented annually to...
by Elaine Olsen | Jan 9, 2016 | fellowship with God, God's Word, holiness, living God's truth, words
Words. Spoken. Written. Thought. Some beautiful. Some bitter. And others, somewhere in between. All words? Powerful. Why? Because they are attached to the heart. “ … For out of the overflow of his heart, his mouth speaks.” –Luke 6:45 The words that grow in our hearts,...
by Elaine Olsen | Aug 13, 2014 | book review, Lessons from the Lunchroom, rest, words
My mind is full. Really full. The kind of full that’s difficult to sort out. The kind of full that just sits there, weighing down on a heart and refusing to budge. Accordingly, it’s been hard to move forward – even toward one little thing that needs doing. So instead...
by Elaine Olsen | Jun 22, 2014 | blessing, cancer volume 4, church life, dad, Holy Spirit, kingdom, living God's truth, ministry life, pilgrimage, strength, truth, words, worship
“I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.” -1 Cor. 3:6-7 Today was watering day at Ebenezer UMC. I took my watering can and applied it heartily to the...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 11, 2014 | Beyond Cancer's Scars (the story behind the story), blessing, brokenness, cancer volume 4, knowing God, living God's truth, pain, silence, speaking, words
“But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today …” –Hebrews 3:13 I saw it in their eyes last evening … a familiar pain. It’s one I’ve felt before. It always touches a nerve whenever I speak on it, especially those nerves deeply embedded in the heart...
