by Robin | Jan 13, 2015 | (in)courage, Faith, friendship, Personal
My dear brothers and sisters, how can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others? {James 2:1 NLT} I don’t think she realized the profundity of her counsel nor the impact that her words would have in my life: “Your...
by Robin | Oct 18, 2014 | (in)courage, Faith, Inspiring, Memoir, Personal
I. I remember it like it was yesterday, when a new-to-me-speaker posed a question that crawled under my skin and has been itching ever since– “Are you the kind of person who walks into a room and declares, ‘Here I am!’ or do you walk into the room and say,...
by Robin | Oct 12, 2014 | Deeper Family @ Deeper Story, Faith, Friends, friendship, Personal
Her tears were watery magnifiers – incredible resolve damming a river – making her impossibly blue eyes look bigger and bluer. I hadn’t known when we made our plans the conversation would go so deep, so fast. Right about then my Belgian waffle arrived, gloriously...
by Robin | Sep 12, 2014 | Faith, Inspiring
My husband was tethered to our car by the gas pump when I noticed a strange man walking toward us. I was glad chrome and glass distanced us but I felt for my husband, a polite hostage to an uninvited sales pitch. I watched while they talked. The man looked to be...
by Robin | Sep 6, 2014 | (in)courage, Faith, Family
It was just the two of us, alone in our house. My daughter had been digging out everything she’d need for her off-campus apartment, the things she had packed away in drawers and boxes and her closet just three months earlier… The paradox of just yesterday...
by Robin | Sep 4, 2014 | (in)courage, Faith, Family, Memoir, Mom stuff
Over five years ago, together with Holley Gerth and Annie Downs, I had the privilege of posting on the day {in}courage was born. Yesterday, {in}courage officially commemorated our 5th anniversary with a stroll down memory lane, a free e-book and a big ol’...