by Ashley Larkin | Oct 21, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Community, Faith, Hope, Love, Perspective, Surrender
I see the whisper floating from lines. Letters strung “Tend this seed.” This gratitude seed, seed of seeing, seed of tiny graces and mercy — what Brennan Manning calls “the ministry of small things.” Tend this seed. For love words,...
by Ashley Larkin | Feb 21, 2013 | Faith, Imperfect Prose, Joy, Mothering, One Word: Trust, Perfectionism, Perspective, Surrender, Trust
Get over your hill and see what you find there, With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair. Mumford & Sons Over a glass of wine last night, a friend and I talked of expectations. How, like creeping weeds, they reach ’round to choke out the gift that...
by Ashley Larkin | Jan 5, 2012 | Gratitude, Perspective, Surrender, Trust
The wind roars through branches with its calls like ocean. Birds against gray stretch wings and veer left, right, and the wind takes them where the wind will. And they do not struggle. They live this soaring dance. I walk under rocking power lines and large, creaking...