Freely Given

All the Things We Say to God


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Tanner Olson is a poet, author, and speaker. He has a book soon to be released with Zonderkids, on all the things we can pray to God.

His poetry is extremely accessible, not high or academic, but lowly and comforting. Reading it feels like receiving comfort from a friend. His first children's book reflects that, as he's encouraging children on bringing all of their cares to God.

In this interview, he talks about the struggle he and his wife have with infertility, and watching all of their friends have kids, and getting to know their kids, and wanting to create a gift for these families in their lives. 

Since then, they adopted their son, and he's become a father, and he talks about learning through all of this more about who God is, and his heart for us.

Poetry and children's books overlap so much as they both require carefully chosen, few words that are packed with meaning and reach the heart. And as a bonus, as adults read books to children, it impacts them as well. 

Tanner is one of our favorite people, and chatting with him is always full of laughter as well as profound thoughts. 

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