by Ashley Larkin | Mar 6, 2015 | Five Minute Friday, Mothering, Perspective, Poetry, Rest, Surrender
i am scattered bits, disconnected, harried, shaken and God bids walk, listen birds call and caw and pound, woodpecker makes morse on a hollowing limb, crow open beak screams from a high branch, lark song rises praise i am like the birds i flit, dart from a branch to...
by Ashley Larkin | Feb 13, 2015 | Five Minute Friday, Hope, Love
When you wake in the morning with first thoughts of fear for tender lives in your care, or with the day’s tasks racing past your face on a hopped-up assembly line, or with pain over that relationship or horrible misunderstanding, and all you can do is sort of...
by Ashley Larkin | Nov 21, 2014 | Celebration, Faith, Fear, Five Minute Friday, Gratitude, Hope, One Word: Seek, Perspective, Redemption
November 20, 2014. I am marking last night as one of the times in my life when I felt the earth shift, the internal structures of my heart made utterly NEW. This is years of process — this rejecting of lies, this saying yes to God’s ways for me —...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 24, 2014 | Five Minute Friday, Risk-taking, Trust, Truth-telling
I dared named Shame this week. Looked her right in accusing, bloodshot eyeballs and told her to get out of my car, my bed. My muscles recognized her first, that old rush and dull ache of inadequacy, vague regret. I told her she wasn’t welcome anymore, that she...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 10, 2014 | Five Minute Friday, Surrender, Truth-telling
It happens so often. I feel excited and all revved up to write on Friday. The word is released in Thursday’s late hours, and I see it. Nothing. I trace back over my week, all the memories of faces and moments, all the moments I thought I could write, and they...
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