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 16, 2014 | Celebration, Childhood, Faith, Giveaway, Perspective, Poetry, Risk-taking, Surrender
If you’d like a gentle hello each time I post new, please subscribe at the sidebar or tab along the top, or Like Draw Near Blog on Facebook. I’m always so thankful that you choose to join me here. Dirty napkins, homework packets, sticky jam spots, markers,...
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 | Jun 26, 2014 | Celebration, Faith, Family, Hope, Mothering, Risk-taking
You could tell their stories weren’t garden variety kid fresh out of high school enters university and leaves with a diploma four (or five) years later, ready to take on the globe. What with their beautiful wrinkles and teary-eyed children, spouses and...
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 | Feb 7, 2014 | Celebration, Childhood, Community, Five Minute Friday, Gratitude, Joy
The snow piles on hoods of cars, front porch furniture, pots filled with dormant living things and the beginnings of crocuses. Writing tells me it’s worth it to remember these details and the way air smells different in the white, the way sounds echo like drums...
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