Cooking with Elsa

Elsa Anders Cook

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Resurrection

    Hope comes again despite all that has happened. The worst thing is not the last thing. There is still more that God will do. There is still more that God is doing and I pray that is especially true for… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Resurrection

  • Pandemic Prayers for Palm Sunday

    I have been so lucky to write prayers in this season that I know have been a blessing. Some of you have kindly commented and encouraged me. Some have messaged me and thanked me personally. Others have commissioned me to… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Palm Sunday

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Fifth Sunday of Lent

    We began the new year with Jeremiah. It was the same chapter even though it was a few verses earlier. There was still the invitation to remember and hold onto what might be coming. We are still in that space… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Fifth Sunday of Lent

  • An Easter Pageant for a Pandemic Year

    This year, we have done things differently. Worship has been different and there have been surprises. There are things that have happened in worship that never would have been possible if we had not been forced into online worship for… Continue reading

    An Easter Pageant for a Pandemic Year

  • Holy Week in Coronatide

    I hadn’t yet started writing pandemic prayers when Holy Week came along last year. Like so many, I was blissfully unaware of what was ahead. We had cancelled a vacation that we will actually be venturing into next week. My… Continue reading

    Holy Week in Coronatide

  • Waiting for Resurrection in Coronatide

    Easter will come just as it has every year before because resurrection is promised. It happens even when we cannot fully comprehend its possibility. Resurrection still happens. I have been thinking a lot about hope this Lent. I’ve been thinking… Continue reading

    Waiting for Resurrection in Coronatide

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

    I’m thinking about my own prayer life a lot right now. I’m wondering about how I’m caring for the tender part of my soul that needs to grieve and sing and wonder — and it’s hard. It’s hard to find… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Third Sunday of Lent

    I am trying to spend some time working on Holy Week things this week but I will confess I don’t think that I have ever preached on the Ten Commandments but opted to skip over it. It never felt like… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Third Sunday of Lent

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Second Sunday of Lent

    I really relate to Abraham falling on his face. I don’t think that has anything to do with the pandemic but the simple fact that I’m always tripping over myself. I am my own worst critic. I am endlessly hard… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Second Sunday of Lent

  • Recipe for Resurrection Awe Strolls

    Here in Texas there has been a terrible freeze. There was snow and it left a good chunk of the state without power including most everyone in my sweet Texas church back in Central Texas. We did have snow over… Continue reading

    Recipe for Resurrection Awe Strolls