by Ashley Larkin | Jan 21, 2013 | Community, Concrete Words, Faith, Giving, One Word: Trust, Perspective, Truth-telling
I don’t want to know what I weigh so much as what I weigh in comparison to you. Not on the bathroom scale with the hand jumping from zero, though sometimes I think about that too. More, I wonder how I measure up to you on those scales used in faraway markets and...
by Ashley Larkin | Dec 10, 2012 | Celebration, Childhood, Concrete Words, Mothering, Parenting, Perspective
The three wise men and their ornate pedestal containers wandered through my dreams last night. I smelled the incense first. I woke thinking of the spices that must have filled the small room, wafting under the noses of the toddler baby and his parents. The exotic...
by Ashley Larkin | Nov 12, 2012 | Concrete Words, Family, Fathering, Perspective, Sorrow
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by Ashley Larkin | Nov 5, 2012 | Childhood, Concrete Words, Family, Gratitude, Perspective
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by Ashley Larkin | Oct 29, 2012 | Childhood, Concrete Words, Family, Gratitude, Joy, Love, Trust
It isn’t the name I would have chosen for him. It hardly seems right for a horse so powerful and majestic, so noble. Don’t you see, this horse is descended from the great racer Man o’ War? He deserves a strong Biblical name or one of a mighty ruler...
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