Posts Tagged With: time

Stuffing or Dressing?

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Karen Thomas Olsen

While I await transport to heaven, I’m keeping myself busy enough, but not too busy.  Every cell of my body and spirit knows that “this world is not my home.”   Most of you, from all I know, live much busier lives than I do because you have more demands on your lives.  Because I have only a husband to care for (and we work well as a team), I have more contemplative and study time.  My days are not stuffed.  Which reminds me of Thanksgiving and this Christmas season.

Paul and I baked a bird this year to feed a group of ten people around our beautiful Thanksgiving table. Continue reading →

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The Breath of a Vapor

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Karen Thomas Olsen

Every year goes so fast. We’re already well into January! Scripture tells us that our lives are like a vapor (James 4:14), so isn’t it interesting that we honestly act surprised at experiencing what we already know is true?  This demonstrates two levels of knowing.  Why does it take life experience to know the truth?  Where does humble, inexperienced (child-like) faith come in? Faith comes by hearing (Romans 10:17).  Yet, faith also grows through experience (Hebrews 11).

The vapor speed of life stirs up stress and anxiety.  I’m experiencing that right now.  Are you?  How do I grow in Christ and His character when my heart won’t settle down?  For you, dear parent, how do you grow in Christ and His character when from the moment your feet hit the floor until your body folds under those sheets again late that night, you are simply answering the call of the immediate: cries for clean clothes, no time for a decent breakfast, where are those keys?, while driving to work thoughts of that difficult person you’ll have to face this morning nag your mind, and, oh, Joey’s game tonight conflicts with a deacon’s meeting! Continue reading →

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Thanking the Lord of Beginnings

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Karen Thomas Olsen

Happy New Year!   Without time, there would be no beginning.  “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).  One of the many virtues of God’s orderly creation is the renewing quality of rhythms and patterns. God created both matter and motion – things in space and time – “All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being” (John 1:3 NASB).

Speed up to the present. The year 2012. Thank You, Jesus, for creating seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks . . .  (Heb. 1:2; Col. 1:16). Teach us to number our days that we may gain wise hearts (Psalm 90:12). Thank You for the rhythm of the revolutions of the earth, the orbits of the moon around the earth and the earth around the sun. Thank You for the faithful dance of matter with motion. Here am I, a little dust fleck on planet earth, infinitesimal in the universe, yet stunningly created in line with the character of my Creator, bearing Your image – Your child!  Thank You! Continue reading →

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