by Ashley Larkin | Feb 27, 2014 | Community, Faith, Fear, Risk-taking
I drive back from dropping off my youngest, and the wind is howling, nudging my big rig side to side. Tuesday is garbage day and as I near my house, I see every street littered by pieces of trash that have fallen from knocked over cans, swept up in gusts. I pull in...
by Ashley Larkin | Jan 31, 2014 | Faith, Five Minute Friday, Gratitude, Hope, Joy, Sorrow
I wouldn’t say he swept in to save me. It felt more a remembering kind of seeing — a peace that started in the belly and moved to limbs, fingers, toes. Thirteen years old, sorrow filled, downright hating myself, knowing I couldn’t keep living like...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 24, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Community, Faith, Fear, Mothering, Perspective, Sorrow, Truth-telling
Friends, this post is longer than anticipated, but I hope you’ll stick in there with me. Maybe you wanna grab a cuppa something first. The other day, I wrote about my struggle with technology — how often it causes me to feel discontent, distracted and...
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 | Oct 18, 2012 | Faith, Fear, Gratitude, Hope, Surrender
The rain starts with drops like sizzles and soon it is pounding like popping corn on the windshield. I clutch the steering wheel hard, shoulders hunched, wipers on full speed with two of my three girls nearly asleep in back. We drive long for a much too-short visit...
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