by Ashley Larkin | Dec 24, 2014 | Celebration, Faith, Perspective, Surrender
Hello, dear friends. I posted this short piece yesterday, but was having some technical problems on the blog, so many subscribers didn’t see it. This is for you today — if you’re wandering, feeling overwhelmed or are grateful for light come down....
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 | Apr 25, 2013 | Faith, Fear, One Word: Trust, Trust
I woke at 4 am Friday and felt the same heavy nagging I’d felt all week as I prepared to leave my family — the feeling that this preparation is really for the end. The end of me. In the early morning dark of the girls’ bedroom, I kissed them...
by Ashley Larkin | Mar 7, 2013 | Community, Family, Favorite posts, Grace, Mothering, Truth-telling
I still remember sitting in her living room, holding my squirmy two-year-old girl on my lap. My friend spoke about comparisons and how she’d been tearing herself apart with them for years. I leaned in. “I’d compare my clothes to that friend’s,...
by Ashley Larkin | Feb 1, 2013 | Childhood, Faith, Fear, Five Minute Friday, One Word: Trust, Perspective, Surrender, Trust
For years, fear lurked under the surface like a low grade fever. In my frenetic busyness and in my quiet moments, it came — that seeping hot with bouts of chills. Sometimes my skin seemed thin as tissue, so sensitive to the fingers of afraid. Sometimes it still...
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