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Here you will find details about my current work, as well as some stories in progress. Learn more about me, about my novel, and about work in progress. You will also find a blog including personal anecdotes, interests, and random thoughts.

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Elaine Gordon is an author and speaker who shares personal stories featuring brokenness and grace after suffering a life-changing brain injury in 2007. She spent over 30 years in the nonprofit sector fighting for the needs of marginalized people.

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Elaine’s experiences inform her passion to make certain that all women see each other, and understand that our God El Roi, the God who sees you, watches and loves, during every circumstance and through every success and failure remains constant over our lives. Wherever women gather, she seeks to share rejoicing and gladness for the day. Thank you for considering Elaine for your gathering.

This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad.

— Psalm 118:24 NIV

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Lessons I’ve Learned

But in the place where we no longer have the strength, ability, or skills to rely on ourselves or anything familiar

God does his best work.

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Seeing the Seen and Unseen
Seeing the Seen and Unseen

If we are to love others as Jesus loved, then we need to see others as Jesus saw. He delivered the same lifesaving message to rich and poor, male and female, young and old. He interacted with people of different backgrounds and ethnicities. He saw everyone as lost, without redemption, apart from him.

Seeing the Real Christmas Gift
Seeing the Real Christmas Gift

The real gifts of Christmas bear no time stamps and linger. These gifts touch hearts and minds long after annual calendars dismiss December’s wintry nights. Sometimes we receive these gifts without full knowledge and need help to understand. 

I received an incomprehensible present when one of my friends gifted me three waxed amaryllis bulbs. I opened the box and saw turnips. Looking again, I found the packing slip identifying the strange items as amaryllis bulbs. I knew what to do with turnips. Flower bulbs required additional guidance.

Remember, Renew, and Give
Remember, Renew, and Give

Some of my earliest memories as a wee child involved big church ideas. I sang truths about Jesus loving all the little children; I prayed with faith Jesus would keep my soul when I laid down to sleep; I learned the verity of the Bible as it told me these things were so.

Repetition, song, prayer. Corporate church, church ladies, neighborhood faithful, and parents taught me and others. Over time learning developed and the concept of grace expanded my lexicon and the person of grace entered my heart.