by Robin Farnsworth | Jun 1, 2023 | Dementia, Loss
Aunt Lila was dying. She knew this, but often forgot. No one knew when it all began, the cancer that likely sprouted as first a small seed within a dormant ovary, a sleeping grain of terror. Then it grew, and grew, indiscreetly dropping more seeds into the dark womb...
by Robin Farnsworth | May 1, 2023 | Blog Post, Hope
How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble! We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear. Job 14:1-3 Somewhere after Abraham but before Moses, there lived a very good man named Job. Full of wealth...
by Robin Farnsworth | Mar 29, 2023 | Blog Post, Faith, Hope, Uncategorized
In the cross, in the cross Be my glory ever, Till my ransomed soul shall find Rest beyond the river. – Fanny Crosby 1869 Hard-boiled eggs.Jelly beans.Easter Lilies.Yuk. Add to that being stuffed into an ill-fitting Easter dress that my mother made, with a death...
by Robin Farnsworth | Apr 9, 2022 | Faith, Hope, Uncategorized
Behind the house, within the backyard, is another yard enclosed in a chain link fence. When I first saw it, I thought the other yard was an odd cutout of the neighbors yard. Why else would you run a chain link fence through a nice looking yard? But the fence had been...
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...