by Ashley Larkin | Mar 13, 2014 | Community, Faith, Gratitude, Perspective, Tell His Story
If I could bottle the drippy treasures for you in bottles, I would. Cup my hands to catch the prayers and the locked gazes and nodding me-too’s. Hold the wisdom of those who share the ways of word loving (and word struggling), of storytelling and eyes opening...
by Ashley Larkin | Mar 12, 2014 | Celebration, Community, Family, Grace, Gratitude, Joy, Love, Poetry
In her treehouse the light pours across the cut camellias and mug of peppermint tea, steam tendrils rising against a periwinkle sky The ancient typewriter sits on the shelf keeping guard over all the books, so many words drawn in wise tenderness by writers before She...
by Ashley Larkin | Mar 6, 2014 | Faith, Fear, Grace, Love, One Word: Seek, Perspective, Trust
The DMV is one of life’s great equalizers. Yesterday morning I take a number, sit in a plastic chair and wait. I cannot make anything move faster — not the people, not the numbers lit red on the rectangular screen above our heads, and neither can anyone...
by Ashley Larkin | May 31, 2013 | Childhood, Five Minute Friday, Giving, Love, Parenting
When I was a girl, it was Dotty and Topo and the Chocolate Pizza Factory. In her toddler years, Sici talked at length with pint-sized Sir — the one with springs for feet — and welcomed The Soccer Teamers into the house for dinner after they arrived on...
by Ashley Larkin | Apr 9, 2013 | Faith, One Word: Trust, Perspective, Trust
Wow. What a weekend. Of incredible speakers, enthusiastic attendees and huge doses of challenging inspiration, including that from the mouths of William Paul Young, author of The Shack, and Ken Wytsma, founder of The Justice Conference. After the Faith and Culture...
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