by Ashley Larkin | Dec 21, 2016 | Celebration, Faith, Perspective
Hello, friends. I’ve made myself scarce around these parts lately — the usual outcome of a full plate and little room to separate the portions. These days of Advent waiting seem much more like days of doing, plates piled high and course melding with...
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 | Dec 4, 2014 | Celebration, Faith, Perspective, Sorrow
Every year I need to remind myself in the season of waiting that Advent is not truly the forced-happy and frantic countdown to Christmas that I can sometimes make it. Advent is anticipation and longing, the days of earth’s groaning and our own unmet yearnings....
by Ashley Larkin | Dec 20, 2013 | One Word: Trust, Perspective, Redemption, Surrender, Truth-telling
Perhaps you feel unworthy of Christmas coming into the mess of your home and your heart, and so you need to recall the babe that came down from heaven and through the birth canal into the stench and filth of a stable and a world. You may need to recall this one who...
by Ashley Larkin | Dec 14, 2013 | Celebration, Community, Faith, Family, Mothering, Perspective, Rest
Lala was only repeating what she’d seen on a commercial, sung by wide-eyed frantic sweater-clad people carrying overflowing shopping bags, rushing to mark items off their holiday lists. While we decorated our house in the first days of the season, I heard her...
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