Frances Robin

Helping Women Heal

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Unashamed!

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I worship with a lot of people who are my “friends” on my facebook wall. We don’t all go to the same church. We don’t belong to the same party and we don’t agree on all things and we definitely don’t agree on anything political. What we have in common, is an affirmative response to the same scriptures, in service to the SAME God. What baffles me the most about the people who are the most influential change-makers in the world, is their continuous and expected silence during times of conflict and injustice in our nation.

Everyone is so afraid of saying the wrong thing or anything at all for that matter and they remain silent. What is there to lose? A scripture quote or a condemnation of an act against humanity is God’s thing. Yet, God’s people always choose silence.

How can we profess to be each other’s keepers when the only time and place believers are comfortable supporting each other, is in the hallways of the church building? It’s hurtful and shameful that the church is either in agreement with the wrongs against the innocent, attacks against the vulnerable, ruthless comments against citizens by their silence. It’s uncertain if they are against it because their silence is louder than their spoken words.


I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ and I’m not afraid to stand before this social media platform to ask, “Who is on the Lord side?”
Because I serve a God that hate, division, and silence must surrender to!

Time To Make Personal Changes

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Sometimes the change has to start within our selves before we can give to others. To help you focus on addressing the past and how it continues to negatively impact your present. Click here to pre-order a copy of this women’s study today.

Finally, a women’s study to take you on a journey to release the burdens of the past to move toward healing and to walk in freedom from the past.

Are You Read For Change?

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Change happens when we roll up our sleeves and commit to getting our hands dirty. We have the power to create the change we seek in and around our communities.

If something is lacking, commit to filling the void, if children are hungr, help create a movement to feed them. Change happens at the level you desire. It could be on a local or national level. It is all dependent on your level of commitment.

Do you want to learn how to get started, then get ready. Sign up for one of my Be The Change Workshops today.

Speaker Invitation

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I am available to share any of my workshop or conduct a group training . If you are looking to educate your staff or audience on next steps to creating change in your community send me a note at frances.robin@gmail.com

A Different Season

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This photo reminded me of a different time. A time when things were simple and complicated at the same time. A time when I was a mother of four little children and working full time. A time when a new season of life was taking root and I resisted some of its responsibilities while embracing others super quickly.

This was a season when I became a super fierce protector of my children’s safety, development, talents, education, and so much more.
This was also a season of teaching them to develop their own voice.

This was also a time when I realized I had to set boundaries. It was a time of learning to put my family first. I had to learn to trust that taking ownership of my life, my family, faith, traditions and legacy was mine to create. I had to trust that it was ok to do what was best for us. I’ve always marched to the beat of my own drum, but now that I had a family I realized even more, how it was ok to go against trends, comfort, ease and making others happy at my expense.

This snapshot reminds me of a time with a lot of change. As we created boundaries, we allowed geography to work in our favor by relocating to a new area. With a new address, we were also meeting and developing new relationships. This, was also a season of tremendous spiritual growth.

Today, I’m in a different season and I’m thankful of the lessons of the past. I appreciate the commitments to roles I initially rejected that I’ve since come to embrace. I’m thankful for the young adults our children have become and even more importantly, I am thankful for the example they’ve been to each other and others in the community.

Today, I’m committed to sharing with others, especially women that there’s beauty in accepting your life. To be ok, VERY ok with setting the standards you want and desire for yourself and for your family and to embrace the other changes along the way.

Leave Your Mark

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Last night, I was reminded of the day I made a decision to follow Christ. Growing up in Dominica, the Christian Faith was an intense, serious and fun experience.

We were taught that the time is urgent and we have to tell the whole world about God. At the time, the whole world was our little village but that never stopped us from thinking about saving the world.

Throughout my school years, I’ve had all sorts of friendships and I’ve had all sorts of fun. During some of the fun, I think God would’ve probably given Jesus a high five and other times I think he probably shook his head and covered one eye.😳

I’ve never, ever thought that people would not want to be around those who identify as Christ followers, until recently. I believed that once people, once they recognized that I or anyone who was a Christ follower, it would be the thing they’d be drawn too. Or the thing that would draw people to each other.

When I was in high school, I took almost my entire basketball team to church. Why not? It was only afterward, at practice, they told me I took them to an all-black church. It never crossed my mind. All I wanted was to share my joy and I loved my team so much, I thought they should have it too!

I’ve been loved by some of the best people God created along this journey. From my grandmother to my family, teachers, pastors, my Jeff, and my Ange, Andy, roommates, coworkers and on and on.

Love, at least the kind God says we are to practice does not put lines, boxes, limits, conditions or requirements on how it should be shared. We are just called to love even those who are considered enemies.

I can say there are times, a lot of times when Christ has been shared with me or with others and not once was his name ever mentioned, that’s because his signature is in us and he is known through us by the way we love.

Let’s get back to leaving our mark, the kind that no pen can make and no eraser can remove.

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