Sojourn

Sunset on the Pond

2010-09-23T12:13:00.001-07:00

Civil War

2009-10-28T15:02:00.000-07:00

A time forgotten in history, The Civil War when neighbors faught with their neighbors. Have we learned? Do we remember. Do you know your neighbors? I dont. I know I should make an effort but I dont take the time. What will it take for us to learn that people are more important than work or television? Why do we allow our neighbors to suffer alone?

2009-10-27T13:33:00.000-07:00

God has given us so many things in this life as blessings for us to cherish. Memories, Good times, Family, Friends, and His creation. Take time to remember all that is good and beautiful and precious in your life. I got a new job today and I am so happy and thankful. The rain has stopped and the land is beautiful. I will be working with pregnant women in the hospital, helping to deliver babies, and even working in Pediatrics. I feel the LORD and his presence, even though I am very tired from working at making my house a home and helping out with Marty's shop. I miss my family and wish I could see everyone at Thanksgiving. Even though I am not going to be in California I am so thankful for a loving family, blood and in-laws. Food in my refrigerator and clothes on my back is always a blessing. What are you thankful for?

Cowabunga

2009-09-08T13:21:00.000-07:00

So much time has gone by already since the wedding. My daughter is quite a woman and housewife. Pensacola is good for her with sun, sand, and surf. Cowabunga.

My best work of art. With Gods gifts. It's good to be blogging again. I have one question. What is your passion. My passion is my daughter, all kids, and helping people. How often do we develop our own goals or follow our dreams. Most of the time we arent really sure what they are. I love my family and friends and would be lonely without them to love me. God is good to me even if my circumstances are not.

2009-08-26T16:16:00.000-07:00

Louisiana Girl
Long way from home. New home in Louisiana is getting settled. Starting to enjoy it. Can you believe it's almost been a year now!

Feelings

2008-06-18T15:30:00.001-07:00

Feelings are not always what you would like to have when they are of doubt and insufficiency. A great struggle in life is to have faith that what I have asked from the Lord He will do, in His time, and I need to be not afraid. Faith is believing in things unseen and things unhoped for.

Faculty, Who me?

2008-03-06T16:23:00.000-08:00

Today I got my first job as a teacher. I have always wanted to teach Nursing students and the Lord has provided a wonderful start with good Godly people and an atmosphere of real caring for the students and teachers alike. The Holy Spirit filled the room as the interview detailed the work of G-d in our lives and how He responds to us through prayer. I have never cried through an interview before, but there is always a first time for everything. I will be teaching LVN students and I couldn't be more excited to have a chance to make a difference in peoples lives. My life has changed so much in the last year and I am always amazed at how the Lord continues to work in my life. Always miraculous with a common thread of love and care and consistency.

Love the Rain

2008-02-14T08:45:00.000-08:00

Raining again in California. The sky is so beautiful and the air is cool and smells like fresh grass. I love the rain. A calming spirit surrounds me as I think about how Adonai loves me. He sends the rain to cleanse my heart and soul. He sends the flowers to color my life. He sends family and friends to support and love me. How blessed am I.

Summer is here!

2007-06-23T07:00:00.000-07:00

Summer is here and I am up early. The early bird gets the worm. I am loving life today. Things are going really well and I am enjoying life. Marty and I even had a mini vacation. We went to Vegas. Funny but, we got bored after a few days. No money... Anyway love my Lord and He is faithful. I am learning to follow God more closely and to obey His word. That is not an easy thing to do. Have you seen all that His word contains? Just barely skimming the surface so far. Marty is writing his bio and I am needing to work on mine. Hope all of my friends are well. Praying more.

Seasons

2007-04-29T09:31:00.000-07:00

Spring is here. The weather is hotter and times they are changing. I am working full time now for Hospice and I love it. My family and I are closer to God than we have been in a long time. Amanda will be home from college today for the Summer. She will be going to school to learn how to be a dietician in the Fall. I need a vacation!!! Yet it's hard to do with no money. Times will be better soon. God is watching over me and my family and we are happy. I have learned to forgive my self for past mistakes and to let God help me in doing so. A big step. God is still in the miracle working business and he is working them in my life now. Just remember when all else fails. Jesus Loves You and you are precious to Him.

The Story of Love

2007-02-14T18:05:00.000-08:00

This is a day where we think of love. Yet I have spent most of the day tired and warn out from a busy day yesterday helping a friend in trouble. I have not really had a right attitude and I don't feel very loving at all. I am doing what is expected of me. Yet, it is not me who I look to for love. My savior gives to me even when I have nothing to give. He gave me his life. Loving me when I am not lovable is his specialty. Even in my state of disarray He gave me hope and a future. Knowing that He is always there for me is comforting even though I don't always feel it. I know many people feel alone. We cannot rely on our feelings. We need to rely on the one who gave everything so that we would have abundant life. My love, My God, My friend. If only I could come out of this with a renewed spirit. I know that their is so much more for me than I can see. I just need to continue to press on, to move in the right way, the way of truth. No matter how I feel. The path of obedience even in pain can be long and arduous. Jesus walks the road with us and I would never have it any other way.

2007-01-23T10:27:00.000-08:00

I have been really ill since late November and am finally feeling better. My strength is coming back slowly and I am able to do around the house some of the things that need to be done. It took Marty and I praying together for my healing to begin. I am so thankful to my Lord for making his face to shine upon me. Looking for a job still and behind in bills yet I feel that it will all come together. I trust the Lord will continue to guide me through these difficult times. His presence is sweet and I prefer nothing else.Went to a Messianic Synagogue this week. Found loving and awesome people. Now I know how Mary must have felt sitting at the feet of the Rabbi. It is amazing to be taught about God's love and I feel refreshed and inspired.Pray that my faith will continue to grow and that a new job is on it's way.

Argh!!!!!!

2006-12-07T09:42:00.000-08:00

I must learn to count my blessings. God is very close to me now. I forget and complain that I am frustrated and behind. I have been sick forever. Feeling better today but ohhhhhh so much to do. I love Jesus. I love Christmas. I love my friends and family. Amanda is home on the 15th from school. I work rarely. Money is tight and bills are due. Guess I had better get to it and organize the bills today.
Merry Christmas
Love ya,
Robin

Sojourn

2006-10-20T18:25:00.000-07:00

It is difficult for me to feel the presence of God in my life sometimes. I know he is there. I just feel empty and alone sometimes. It is important to count your blessings, stay in the word, and pray. All are important. It is also important to claim his promises and to realize that their is a real life battle for our souls going on where we are unable to see what is really going on around us. Finances continue to be tough, yet at least I am getting a handle on it. I know that the Lord said don't be anxious. So I continue to speak faith into my life and believe he loves me, he has a plan for me, and he will never leave me or forsake me.

Race For The Cure

2006-10-16T16:51:00.000-07:00

Amanda came home over the weekend and ran for Breast Cancer. I am very proud of her. She ran with her friends. Marty watched and had a good time being the good step dad. I spent the day teaching preschoolers at Jr Church. Amanda and I made homemade pumchinni bread (pumpkin/zuchinni). Today I was supposed to work but they called me off again. Money is tight but I know the Lord will provide. Pray for me guys. I need to work.

Changes

2006-10-12T21:28:00.000-07:00

A day of discovery. Felt good most of the day. Talked with the chaplain about excuses. We make excuses for the failures in life sometimes. Not allowing ourselves to look deep inside to what the real issues are. Do we seek God? Do we hear him speak? Do we follow what he says?
Why do we live without victory?
Jesus spoke to his disciples. " Keep on asking and you will recieve what you ask for. Keep on seeking and you will find. Keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you for everyone who asks, recieves. Everyone who seeks finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened (Matthew 7:7)."

Jesus Loves You

2006-10-11T08:59:00.000-07:00

Jesus Died on a lonely cross. No one understood him. People hurt him. He was alone. He felt our pain. They hated him. They killed him. Yet, after 3 days in death, the Heavenly Father said arise, and Jesus walked on the earth for many days. His friends saw him dead then they saw him alive. They ran to tell the world. Many would not listen or believe. Those who did believe received eternal life, as we will.

Come to the Father

2006-10-11T08:44:00.000-07:00

Before the world began, you were on his mind. Every tear you cried is precious in his sight. Because of his great love, he gave his only son. Everything was done so you would come. Nothing you can do can make him love you more. Nothing that you have done can make him close the door. Come to the Father. Though your gift is small, broken hearts, broken lives, He will take them all. The power of his word, The Power of his blood, everything was done so you would come (Hillsong). For God so loved the world that he gave his only son. Those who believe in Him will have everlasting life (John 3:16).Jesus was God’s son. Sent to this earth to live a life without failure. He lived and taught and loved all those he came in contact with, hookers, tax collectors, the handicapped, the depressed, and the crazy folk. He showed the world how to love and he wants to love you.

The Power of God

2006-10-10T19:25:00.000-07:00

The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it it’s the very power of God… Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God…God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength…God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important (1Corinthians, 1). I believe that my feelings of not being good enough is part of God’s plan for me to realize that it is in his power that I will do all that he has for me.

Robin And Marty

2006-10-10T13:21:00.000-07:00

Marty and I at Spirit West Coast Monterey

Water's Edge

2006-10-10T12:27:00.001-07:00

Come and listen, come to the water's edge, you who are thirsty. Let me tell you what he has done for me, what he has done for you, what he has done for us. Praise I have got it, for He is good...He is our king, He is our love, He is our God who comes to bring us back to Him...I am earth, He is heaven, I am stained, He is everything clean...From broken earth flowers come (David Crowder Band).

I am a new creation, my past is just a memory, My God is my future. He loves and forgives me. He has forgiven me for things I could not forgive myself. He gives me the strength to be real. To tell you of what He has done for me. As a teenager, like so many others I felt lonely and unloved. The guys I loved never loved me back and I gave away my heart to few. I was hurt again. Inside me I knew God loved me yet I still didn't understand why others did not. If God loved me why did I hurt so much. He spoke to me through song and I sought after Him. Yet drugs and friends, love and life would once again take me away. I did not know that the world did not hold the answers to my loneliness.

Determined

2006-10-09T21:51:00.000-07:00

I am determined to speak to those who need to hear of who Jesus Christ is. He has been the lover of my soul, my only refuge, the only one who has stood beside me even in the worst of times. As a child I did not know it was him who gave me a peace and a comfort. He made me feel loved and I was never alone. Now I realize it was my Jesus. I had been hurt by those I called my friends and family never knew. They would have cared but I believed the lies spoken to my heart that I was never good enough and that my being hurt only showed my weakness one I did not want to share with anyone. Who was God? Someone who was in Heaven watching me to make sure I was good. I was hurt, it was not my fault, but who would believe it. Even I did not believe it. Yet He came to me, he dried my tears and he called me friend. I remember even then how much he loved me. Could I love my self?

My Testimony

2006-10-08T20:47:00.000-07:00

This is my new start to my testimony. I once was lost, A drug addict and a love addict. I spent so many days in mental and emotional pain. My answer to this pain was to run to anything that would help to numb that pain. Men, drugs, television, and friendships were all to easy for me to run to. I never knew any better. Thinking I was a Christian since I was a little child I have struggled to find my testimony. Where do I fit in? What changed me? I don't know. I am working to find the answers. Was it in my teens when God called me? I don't know. I answered yet I did not obey for long. I ran again. Was it in my twenties when I wanted to die? I wanted to follow Him but I didn't have the strength to stay. Was it in my 30's when terrible tragedy once again fell upon my life. I don't know. I still ran away. Now in my 40's I look back and wonder if I have changed at all. I know I have, yet, do I still run? I'm looking for help to find the right way to testify of what my Jesus has done for me. How do I go on without the answers? God will lead me and I know some of my friends or people who read this can help.