by Ashley Larkin | Oct 14, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Childhood, Concrete Words, Family, Love, Marriage
We returned about 25 minutes ago from a long weekend with my sister and her family in Central Oregon. We feel full. From minestrone soup and brownies and nest building under the pine trees and running in the open grass and playing in the pool and listening to music...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 13, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Faith, Gratitude, Perspective, Trust
O God, we thank you for this earth; our home, For the wide sky and the blessed sun, For the salt sea and the running water, For the everlasting hills And the never-resting winds, For trees and the common grass underfoot. We thank you for our senses By which we hear...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 6, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Faith, Gratitude
My Joys Mount As Do The Birds Lord, I am happy this morning. Birds and angels sing and I am exultant. The universe and our hearts are open to your grace. I feel my body and give thanks. The sun burns my skin and I thank you. The breakers are rolling toward the...
by Ashley Larkin | Apr 19, 2012 | Community, Faith, Risk-taking
“It is the things I have left undone which haunt me far more than the things which I have done.” Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water Yesterday I spent more than an hour on the phone with a friend. I very rarely do this these days. Our conversation...
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...
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