Faith Archives - Page 11 of 38

What is YOUR is yes?

by Robin | Jan 26, 2014 | Beauty, Faith, Plants & flowers, Poetry

The first poet I remember liking more than nursery rhymes was e.e. cummings, and I don’t think I knew his name was Edward Estlin til now. I was in high school and his words looked like art, and like many of my contemporaries, I believed I could emulate his...

Walter Mitty and the residual affect of how we speak love

by Robin | Jan 23, 2014 | Compassion International, Do Something!, Encouragement, Faith, Love Gifts, Uncategorized

I’ve been thinking about those giant crosses in Chattanooga off I-75, how they provoke response on either ends of the spectrum. And, earnestly, I’ve been trying to consider the other side, the point of view different from my own… but the closest I...

Crosses and Planks

by Robin | Jan 22, 2014 | Deeper Family @ Deeper Story, Faith

I shared the image online with a one-word caption. Not even a word, really. A number. $700,000. It was vaguebooking at its finest, bait, an indictment. The first comment was a single-word response – Argumentative – and I suppose it was, knowing my own...

When you are aren’t like her but wish you were

by Robin | Jan 20, 2014 | (in)courage, Faith, Great quotes, Inspiring, The Wonder of a Woman, Women

I read her words and they were hot embers to my heart– they burned glory, only glory, but in my humanity, I received them as a vicious personalassault. The enemy hissed lies and I lapped them up like a ravenous kitten, allowing them to press into tender places, old...

On Community and Confession

by Robin | Jan 19, 2014 | Faith, Great quotes

From Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, compelling thoughts on confession, and why it does a body (and a Body) good. If you’ve never read Bonhoeffer but know you should (wink), Life Together is a short work, an...