by Robin Farnsworth | Oct 13, 2025 | Blog Post, Hope, Loss, Love
The nurse snapped the paper to a clipboard, handed it to me with a pen, then looked back at her computer screen. “I’m going to tell you three words, then I will ask what they are after you draw the face of a clock, and set the time to 11:10.” She paused. “Apple, car,...
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 | Mar 11, 2020 | Faith, Hope, Love
Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. Matthew 7:13-14 I...
by Robin Farnsworth | Aug 14, 2019 | Blog Post, Faith, Love, Redemption
Jesus People 1970’s “Quench not the Spirit.” 1 Thessalonians 5:19 Sanctification: 1. to set apart to a sacred purpose: Consecrate 2:to free from sin: Purify This word popped into my mind as I made my way through the woods this morning, lifting my...
by Robin Farnsworth | May 10, 2018 | Love
1. Manners. I hated learning all 192 of them, and I was the only girl north of Baltimore who knew how to curtsy. I was banished from many meals, red with shame for “smacking my lips” or slipping an elbow onto the table. Most of them were absurd and out of...
by Robin Farnsworth | Feb 13, 2018 | Hope, Love, Uncategorized
“First Corinthians 13…” I’m opening a small Bible that I brought to give to one of the inmates. “Where is that?” Jessica asks. “It’s right here.” I push the Bible towards her, keeping my finger on the page. Kara...
