by Robin Farnsworth | Nov 17, 2013 | Faith
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6 It was a master plan. Everything had been timed perfectly. We had even made a dry run the day before, calculating...
by Robin Farnsworth | Nov 2, 2013 | Love, Random
Selah (Hebrew: סֶלָה, also transliterated as selāh) is a word used 74 times in the Hebrew Bible – 71 times in the Psalms and three times in Habakkuk – and is a difficult concept to translate. It is probably either a liturgico-musical mark or an instruction on the...
by Robin Farnsworth | Oct 21, 2013 | Loss, Random
Fifty years. I was standing on the small strip of wet sand that had been almost completely swallowed up by the full moon high tide and I was trying to remember. And then it occurred to me it had been fifty years. I was seven years old the last time I played in the...
by Robin Farnsworth | Sep 26, 2013 | Hope, Loss, Redemption
From the hill where I stood looking down at the small city of Cohb, Ireland (pronounced Cove) I could just make out the harbor and the sea, which was a light green, spattered with a few small boats. It was Irish weather; a fine mist gave the colorful town an opaque...
by Robin Farnsworth | Aug 29, 2013 | Dementia, Hope, Random, Women
“Ama, are you shrinking?” The question was posed by my five year old granddaughter, and it made me stumble a bit at first. Could you tell? Was it THAT noticeable? When I mentioned our conversation to my son, he tried to comfort me by saying that she had been asking...
