I am seated at the Source Café In Jinja with Apostle Robin Blue. Born in Los Angeles, California in the US, she has as many come a long away to be where she is now. Having grown up in a well knit Christian home in which the father was a pastor, Apostle Blue never really ended up as a pastor's daughter should.
"Many people appear to have their lives together outwardly, but inside, they are emotional wrecks because they have been traumatised" she goes ahead to tell me. Beyond the drug dealing, Robin was always enveloped by a deep sadness, a hole in her soul that all the money and hanger on could not fulfill. All her life, something was a miss. She just wanted to be loved and so she found solace in drugs.
Her supply of drugs had gone as far as schools campus, through a choir which she used to sell drugs to, she finally gave her life to Jesus after watching a play called A Thief In The Night.
Later on, she got married to a saved homosexual youth whose uncle was the pastor in her Baptist Church. God blessed them with two girls but after seven years in marriage, he committed suicide. She lost everything after her husband's death. Her property and the insurance company never compensated her since her husband death was not natural but intentional.
Life went on though rough but God being as always faithful, blessed her with another husband who later also turned out to be a homosexual. To add salt to the injury, during this tough period, her parents were going through a rough marriage which ended up in a divorce but what really startled her was that her mother's reason for the separation was based on her sexuality.
Yes! She was a lesbian. Leaving her father to marry the woman of her life. How worse could it get for this woman! Having been born prematurely, crippled and overweight, she doubted her abilities, had little faith in her potential and questioned her personal worth. The choices she made reflected her self-image. These are clear as she indicated in her previous marriages to the same men with low self-esteem. Until 2003, Robin weighed 170Kg. Now she is now only 70Kilos. She lost 100kilos within a span of two years.
In 2003, she slipped and fell, fracturing her knee. Doctors prescribed surgery but her weight and the fat content were too extreme and she decided to lose weight. As she puts it herself "people were not concentrating on the word of God but my weight." And how did she do it?, I ask and she says it is all called Food discipline.
The wind beneath Robin's wings is so evident. Though hurt and years of discouragement crumbled in her life, she believed that the sunshine was her highest aspiration. Robin's life went into a downward spiral after her divorce and for years, she alienated friends but since she had given her life to God, she decided to dedicate her life totally and during one of the Bible studies in her church, she met her current husband Herbert Blue who was also divorced.
They have been married for 30 years now. Being a motivational speaker, a mother, a grandmother, a wife, an Apostle, a preacher, a career woman, a pioneer, a trendsetter, an icon and an excellent cook, it has taken her over five years of hard work, facing opposition that ranged from scepticism to outright hostility from friends but she has chosen to believe that she can make it and indeed she has made immeasurable contribution to the world of preaching through her Spirit Song Ministries International.
The power packed, versatile, gutsy, laden with texture and instantly identifiable phenomenal woman. Robin believes that all success begins with spreading one's wings, believing in one's worth, trusting ones insight, nurturing oneself and having a goal and devising personal strategy. And then the impossible dreams come true.
"Failure will never overtake if my determination is strong enough," reiterates Robin. Robin is an immensely talented woman, tempestuous and she is not boring.
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