by Ashley Larkin | Oct 25, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Childhood, Five Minute Friday, Gratitude, Mothering, Parenting
“The giraffe has a long, black tongue,” J reads aloud to Lala. They laugh as they look at the picture. J continues, her voice patient and gentle as she reads from the just delivered kids’ nature magazine. “The harvest mouse is the weight of a...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 24, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Community, Faith, Fear, Mothering, Perspective, Sorrow, Truth-telling
Friends, this post is longer than anticipated, but I hope you’ll stick in there with me. Maybe you wanna grab a cuppa something first. The other day, I wrote about my struggle with technology — how often it causes me to feel discontent, distracted and...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 23, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Faith, Grace, Hope, Perspective, Redemption
Good morning. I thought I’d be sharing with you today the continuation of yesterday’s post about the push and pull of technology, but I’m not. I expect to be back with that tomorrow, sharing words from a comedian that I haven’t been able to...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 22, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Community, Perspective, Truth-telling
In the days when I wore a pager for work, I worried about the ways technology could seep into every moment and struggled with how to turn off my accessibility. When I was a teenager, I simultaneously marveled at the idea of a mobile phone while wondering why someone...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 21, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Community, Faith, Hope, Love, Perspective, Surrender
I see the whisper floating from lines. Letters strung “Tend this seed.” This gratitude seed, seed of seeing, seed of tiny graces and mercy — what Brennan Manning calls “the ministry of small things.” Tend this seed. For love words,...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 20, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Grace, Gratitude, Perspective
Oh, Great Spirit Whose voice I hear in the winds, And whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me, I am small and weak, I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. – – – Make my...
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