by Ashley Larkin | Sep 19, 2014 | Celebration, Five Minute Friday, Love, Marriage
{Michael and I dressed up in our 60’s finest last fall} You’d never really held babies before, but there you were — such a pro — cradling our precious firstborn like a football. I envied you, then, the way your hold calmed her right down,...
by Ashley Larkin | Sep 12, 2014 | Faith, Family, Five Minute Friday, Grace, Hope, Mothering, Parenting, Surrender
I don’t know that we can be truly ready for the big changes. Even those we gear up for and plan, anticipate or lay awake with in the middle of the night look different when we’ve come upon them, are able to finger their intricacies, behold them in the real...
by Ashley Larkin | Aug 29, 2014 | Faith, Fear, Five Minute Friday, One Word: Seek, Surrender
At the beginning of the year, I found myself writing a lot about seeking and the unsettled ache and the continual true end: my home in Christ. It is the place where I am small in his shelter, where I am loved and treasured as the object of his affection, where I...
by Ashley Larkin | Aug 15, 2014 | Community, Five Minute Friday, Love, Sorrow
300 Howard University students stand for Michael Brown, 8/13/14 There is no telling what it felt like to be in his skin in that moment. Was he afraid? Indignant? Was this one of those times his mama had warned him about? And while we don’t know all the details of this...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 5, 2012 | Community, Five Minute Friday, Grace, Gratitude, Love
It’s Friday, and I’m meeting up with the community of Five Minute Friday at Lisa-Jo Baker’s Tales from a Gypsy Mama for some free writing. Here are the rules: follow the prompt, no extreme editing, write for five minutes flat and encourage the person...
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