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Giving Up Grace: A Spiritual Rebranding of the Soul
About The Book
When Robin was nineteen, she had an abortion—her first, but it wouldn’t be the last. To save a life, she needed to see life, but she never acknowledged the “being” growing inside. Abortion was just a means to an end.
What followed was a forty-year wandering as Robin sought to fill her “empty” with anything but Jesus because she didn’t know Jesus and his lifesaving grace. Men became her “kings” and sex became the substitute for the love she so desperately craved. If only she had known.
She begged the God of the universe she didn’t believe existed for a filling of her barren soul. Through a supernatural, come-to-Jesus-moment on the river and a divine appointment with a magazine in her mailbox, Robin found the grace of forgiveness and the love of her life at the most unexpected moments of impact.
Giving Up Grace delivers the message of God’s scandalous grace that goes well beyond identity to the root issues that cause us to look for everything and anything to fill the empty only Jesus can fill. Robin’s raw, unapologetic story meets humanity in the streets and in the trenches, and with gut-wrenching honesty delivers grace.
"Sometimes we are lost to be found, and sometimes we need to give up the grace we don’t know in order to find the grace we really need. Grace … it’s the beginning and end of everything!"
—Robin Gerblick
About The Author
Robin Gerblick
Robin Gerblick … born out of broken, delivered by destiny, and grown into God’s grace. Teacher, award-winning author, communicator, inspiration influencer, lover of life and the living water. Robin is the founder and visionary of www.exoduswomensretreat.com, Faith, Fitness, Freedom. She and her husband of thirty years split their time between the Arizona desert and the mountains of Idaho. She is Mom to their most amazing, adopted daughter from foster care, dog momma to three, and Grammy to her two precious grands. You will often find Robin and her husband on a motorcycle or back-country airplane looking for their next adventure.
Quotes from... Giving Up Grace: A Spiritual Rebranding of the Soul
When humanity was first created, God took dust from the earth, shaped and molded it and breathed life into man. The Creator of the universe got His hands dirty to give us life.
Some call it born again. I called it a spiritual rebranding of the soul, the inside work of a transformed heart and a space called Grace where I could finally breathe.
My life became grounded in Grace. I greeted her with arms wide open, expectant like a mother. A reverent trust was born. I knew I didn’t deserve forgiveness, heaven, or eternal life … but then there was Grace.
All that I was, all that I could be, collided with the presence of something—someone greater than me orchestrating a symphony of perfect harmony where I no longer needed to be the conductor. Instead, I could finally take in the beauty of notes that were meant to blend with a melody that would play through eternity.
Nothing could have prepared me for this collision of time and space when the universe released particles from the past to intersect with my present position. A reasoning. A reckoning. A release. Release that, in its raw, unapologetic form, becomes the Grace of forgiveness.
In an instant, a moment in life that time truly stood still, my world stopped revolving and instead started revealing. God’s plan for me unfolded right before my very eyes.
Your time in the pit, in the belly of the whale, may seem longer than three days, three years—or an eternity. This may be your bitter pill to swallow. Yet you can’t seek God’s love and run away from Him at the same time. Time spent in the belly of the whale always includes time spent in prayer. I learned this in God’s time as I called on Him to save my life with His Grace—even if I ended up in the belly of the whale for thirty years.
In that moment, I came to understand that brokenness was the place where trust and faith were forged. A place where healing was in the hands of the Healer, and the Healer was not me, or any of the men who wrapped their arms around me, trying to wrap up my identity.
My eyes were spiritually opened to reveal God’s gracious forgiveness for all that I hadn’t been able to forgive in myself.
I can picture Jesus’ life blood flowing into her as her own blood flowed out. An exchange happened that day—old life for new, hurt for healing.
As she touched the hem of His garment, He touched her heart and made it personal. He’s not satisfied until we come face to face with Him. That’s where the real healing takes place.
Something new had taken place. Like the filling of an hourglass slowly dripping sand into the other half of eternity, there was a filling in the other half of my soul and Grace filtered in.
Grace—it’s the beginning and the end of everything!