by Ashley Larkin | Sep 9, 2016 | Five Minute Friday, Redemption
I’ve known thousands of ways to heal. Through painted fingernails and facial scrubs, smiles in the mirror, long hugs and hot tears, karaoke and dance, scary risks and laughing hard and loud. Through letting the true me come out, in receiving her right where she...
by Ashley Larkin | Apr 20, 2016 | Faith, Fear, Grace, Gratitude, Love, Perspective, Redemption
I’ve recognized over the years, though I still don’t get, that some people are simply not animal people. No judgment here, friends. I just don’t understand. So for you, maybe this story is not about a dog at all, but perhaps hope and audacious prayers and receiving...
by Ashley Larkin | Feb 26, 2016 | #OneWord365, Faith, One Word: Complete, Perspective, Poetry, Redemption
Lay them right down, all those lies you’ve believed about yourself all you’ve desired to see lapped up like kindling, watch the flames swallow them. Look at those ashes at your feet, reach down, cup them in your palms, you can hardly believe how soft it...
by Ashley Larkin | Jan 25, 2016 | Favorite posts, Hope, Perspective, Redemption
If you are joining from Amber Haines’ place this morning, welcome. I’m so happy to see you! Amber Haines was one of the first writers I ever read online. Her words brought tears, revisited me in hushed moments, got swirled up on my insides. The way Amber...
by Ashley Larkin | Nov 21, 2014 | Celebration, Faith, Fear, Five Minute Friday, Gratitude, Hope, One Word: Seek, Perspective, Redemption
November 20, 2014. I am marking last night as one of the times in my life when I felt the earth shift, the internal structures of my heart made utterly NEW. This is years of process — this rejecting of lies, this saying yes to God’s ways for me —...
by Ashley Larkin | May 28, 2014 | Hope, Poetry, Redemption, Truth-telling
We’re creaky, a little worse for wear, orangey rough sharp edges. When you open us up like gates, we make a racket and feel some embarrassed, like maybe we should have buffed out the bumpy parts and greased the creaky parts and put out shiny best, but you and...
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