by Robin | Jan 10, 2018 | Faith, Grace Table, Hospitality, Humor, Uncategorized
It occurred to me recently how there’s value in our mess-ups: they’ll often sear memory, and in the best of times they can point us to something magnificent. Mess-ups…mistakes are hard to forget. The more public, the more memorable. On...
by Robin | Dec 29, 2017 | (in)courage, Beauty, Faith, Inspiring
I want to push you, gently but sure. Not in the way that bruises knees and pride but in the way a mama bird nudges her lovies out of the nest. She knows they’re capable of doing so much more, that they only need a little encouragement. Mama knows they’ll soon...
by Robin | Nov 30, 2017 | (in)courage, Faith, Personal
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Ecclesiastes 3:11 I remember it like it was yesterday, when a new-to-me speaker posed a question that burrowed under my skin like a chigger in the heat of summer — “Are you the kind of person who walks into a...
by Robin | Oct 31, 2017 | Faith, Uncategorized
Recently, our pastor led a sermon series that caught me by surprise, six messages celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation (which happens to be today, October 31, 2017). It would have been almost expected in the former denomination we attended...
by Robin | Oct 3, 2017 | (in)courage, Books, Encouragement, Faith, Favorite things, Inspiring, Personal
If you aren’t yet a subscriber, how about today? Our world is reeling these days, isn’t it? Collectively, we feel the tragic news out of Las Vegas, horrified that one man could rob so many of so much; for too many, their lives. I can only imagine...
by Robin | Mar 26, 2017 | (in)courage, Faith, Family, Memoir, Personal
He slipped in sideways between the closing elevator doors, as if he were late to a meeting; he pressed the “5” without looking. Instead of suit and tie, though, baggy pants and faded navy hung on his tall, slim frame. His stealth entry stiffened the hairs on the back...