by Robin Farnsworth | Jan 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Twenty years ago the 26th of this month, I gazed upon the lifeless body of the boy who made me mom. Spencer was a few weeks short of 22, a young man really, but always a boy to his mom, as I point out to my other two sons, who are now fully men. Twenty years. It...
by Robin Farnsworth | Nov 30, 2021 | Blog Post, Faith, Loss, Love
We don’t have a title! I wasn’t quite sure I understood my friend, sitting across her living room from me. What? We don’t have a title. You know, like woman who have lost their husbands are called “widows.” But mothers who have lost a child...
by Robin Farnsworth | Nov 21, 2021 | Blog Post, Hope, Random
***After writing several Thanksgiving blogs, here is a repost honoring the day after. And giving thanks for Work! “The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work...
by Robin Farnsworth | Aug 25, 2021 | Hope, Uncategorized
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:14 Blog: (noun) a website containing a writer’s or group of writers’ own experiences, observations, opinions, etc. Blogged, blogging (verb) August...
by Robin Farnsworth | Jul 7, 2021 | Loss, Redemption, Uncategorized
Bap, bap, bap…the sound of a basketball hitting pavement still gives me a strange sense of comfort. I am transported back to gymnasiums, the squeak of sneakers on the floor, the shriek of a ref’s whistle. Though my eyes never left my child, eventually I learned...
