“God Relaxes the Bow” Guest Blog for Joni & Friends
Read my most recent guest blog for Joni & Friends here.
Elinor's Autumn 2020 Newsletter
“FORGET THE FORMER THINGS; DO NOT DWELL ON THE PAST. SEE, I AM DOING A NEW THING! NOW IT SPRINGS UP; DO YOU NOT PERCEIVE IT? I AM MAKING A WAY IN THE WILDERNESS AND STREAMS IN THE WASTELAND." ISAIAH 43:18-19
In my life, God has made new things out of the old many times. Great new things, including my life after "normal body" when polio hit. Including my life back in the U.S. after those wonderful years in Papua. I sense another new thing won't be far away.
Bad Legs blog for Joni & Friends
In 2019 Joni & Friends asked me to write a guest blog for the future Disability in Mission section of their blog page. The page for that topic went live the third week of July ‘20. My blog posted as the next week’s entry. You can read it at https://www.joniandfriends.org/bad-legs/
Elinor’s 2020 Spring to Summer Newsletter
May 30, 2020
It has been years since I lived in the world of this photo, but lately it has been unusually strong on my mind.
Reunion in Heaven
May 20, 2020
Have you ever lived where babies screamed in terror when they saw you because of your pale skin, unlike that of everyone they know? Obviously this baby didn't.
Gainfully Employed
July 25, 2015
I have discovered that some people think that because I am retired and (according to the government) not “gainfully employed,” and because Im disabled with little strength and energy, I don’t do much.
Laugh a Little, Will Ya?
July 12, 2015
At my age, my annual Senior Wellness check-up is an interesting event. After preliminaries, the nurse said, “I’m going to say a series of three words and ask you to remember them after I ask you a question.”
“Last year one of them was apple,” I offered.
Tethered and Free
June 28, 2015
This morning a local TV station aired a story about today’s Iron Man contest in Couer d’Alene, Idaho. One of the athletes is a blind soldier. He lost his sight to shrapnel from a car bomb blast in Iraq. For some weeks afterwards he felt angry, useless and hopeless. How that changed is another story, but it did, and he was about to run his first Iron Man. How?
“Bad Legs” Video on YouTube
June 22, 2015
My mission agency, World Team, has put the 22 minute video, “Bad Legs” on their YouTube channel. It’s a very short summary of God’s story in my life – a whole lot shorter than my memoir will be! The project was not my idea originally, but I’m glad that it was done. The video can go places and reach people I can’t.
“Bad Legs” Video Trailer
June 16, 2020
Tomorrow the 22-minute video, “Bad Legs – Elinor Young, a Missionary Story” will be launched by my mission agency, World Team. Here’s the one-minute trailer.
First Launch Into Papuan Life
June 14, 2015
41 and 1/2 years ago I got on an airplane in Spokane to begin my first ever journey to the place that became so dear to me, Irian Jaya (Papua), Indonesia. All I knew about the land and its people was what I had read, including that much was still undiscovered.
Lifeline to the World Outside
May 23, 2015
I wasn’t sure this radio still existed, but I found it among things stashed away from my childhood. My aunt gave it to me in 1952 during the seven months I was in the hospital recovering from polio.
Passing the Torch
May 5, 2015
One of the things I love to do the most is talk to the next generation. Usually that is in a college class setting. Whatever the venue of a presentation, it takes some days to get my body ready, and some days to recover, but I am SO grateful I’m able to!