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 5, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Community, Fear, Grace, Sorrow, Truth-telling
“Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.” – Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers My friend and I walk side by side, and she tells me about her struggle, how she...
by Ashley Larkin | Sep 19, 2013 | Imperfect Prose, One Word: Trust, Open endings, Sorrow, Tell His Story, Trust, Truth-telling
“If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.” – Anne Lamott,...
by Ashley Larkin | Sep 10, 2013 | Childhood, Faith, Family, Imperfect Prose, Just Write, Mothering, One Word: Trust, Perspective, Sorrow, Tell His Story, Trust, Truth-telling
I’m sitting here in the sticky air of my basement in front of the computer while Lala watches a show. It’s giving me a few minutes to write and so I’m choosing to be thankful, rather than guilty. Within the last 24 hours, I’ve read three great...
by Ashley Larkin | Aug 9, 2013 | Community, Faith, Fear, Five Minute Friday, Perspective, Risk-taking, Sorrow, Surrender, Trust, Truth-telling
I wrestled my way free from loneliness over and over again. It was a clawing kind of fight. My desperation not to feel alone that stuffed and filled the empty folds of life with people and activities and important things because the space of the cavern meant pain and...
by Ashley Larkin | Apr 17, 2013 | Faith, Favorite posts, Fear, Hope, Mothering, Sorrow, Truth-telling
I check the email on my phone at about 5:30 on Monday evening — right after we say goodbye to the little friends I watch every Monday and Tuesday — and read the words, “in light of what has happened in Boston today…” And I feel the...
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