by Ashley Larkin | May 15, 2014 | Childhood, Fear, Hope, Imperfect Prose, Mothering, One Word: Seek, Perspective, Tell His Story
We worry, in fact it brings tears right to the eyes this nagging feeling that these small lives don’t matter we know their small lives do with their bellies needing food and their potty accidents, their little hearts and eyes crying out, see me, and i need the...
by Ashley Larkin | Apr 1, 2014 | Concrete Words, Grace, Love, Mothering, Perspective, Truth-telling
It began with a rush and a flood and a steady slow trickle. It began in spinning anxieties and a heart that pounded fierce love and basked in her eyes, little neck and gurgles like wet birds. It began with deep soil digging and gave birth to skeleton structure and...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 9, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Childhood, Faith, Grace, Gratitude, Imperfect Prose, Mothering, Tell His Story
Sometimes we don’t want to be right here. While that is perhaps the most obvious statement of the century, it’s true that one of the greatest hindrances to being right where we are is that sometimes, for seemingly small or large reasons, right here is not...
by Ashley Larkin | Aug 15, 2013 | Faith, Favorite posts, Hope, Imperfect Prose, Mothering, One Word: Trust, Perfectionism, Surrender, Trust
I write a bit how I live — with some planning and dedication and a whole lot of flying by the seat of my pants. I work in the scraps and snatches of time I can find between the laundry and the school supply shopping, the running through the sprinkler and the...
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