by Ashley Larkin | Jul 15, 2014 | Fear, One Word: Seek, Risk-taking, Trust, Truth-telling
Everywhere I look and in every word I read, I hear, Brave. Brave. Be brave. _____ We welcome in this dear girl, knocked around and emotionally roughed up by peers this school year, and she brings her self, an intact smile and quirky sense of humor as if she is not...
by Ashley Larkin | Jul 4, 2014 | Fear, Five Minute Friday, Mothering, Surrender, Trust, Truth-telling
I hardly recognize how often I do it. Hold my breath, wait for the feeling of fear to pass, worry to skitter through, even a feeling to take hold. Just how much of my day goes by, I wonder, pushing through to the next thing without expelling waiting air from my lungs?...
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 | 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 | Feb 27, 2014 | Community, Faith, Fear, Risk-taking
I drive back from dropping off my youngest, and the wind is howling, nudging my big rig side to side. Tuesday is garbage day and as I near my house, I see every street littered by pieces of trash that have fallen from knocked over cans, swept up in gusts. I pull in...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 30, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Community, Fear, Hope, Love, Perspective
You may have awakened this morning to the buzzing of an alarm clock, the sounds of the radio, a dull internal nudge. You may have felt dread for today’s might be’s, regret over yesterday’s failings. You may have worried that you couldn’t live...
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