by Ashley Larkin | Jan 5, 2015 | #OneWord365, Community, Fear, Hope, One Word: Fearless, One Word: Seek, Risk-taking, Surrender, Truth-telling
While Michael built a bonfire, and the girls constructed a playground from driftwood, I took a brief walk down the beach, through packed sand, over piles of strewn logs and past tide pools. It was a day of transition — the year’s newness still palpable,...
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 | Nov 6, 2014 | Childhood, Hope, Risk-taking, Surrender
It’s September, and I am weaving through the classroom, sidling up beside kids one at a time. Lala is my third child enjoying kindergarten with Ms. Foster, and so for the third school year, I have the privilege of assisting this wondrously talented veteran...
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 1, 2014 | Faith, Five Minute Friday, Hope, Open endings, Risk-taking, Surrender, Trust, Truth-telling
The sky flashes, light unzipping across the dawning summer morning. It is surprising in these parts, a morning storm without rain, and the unseen bolt is a beginning that spreads fingers across earthly skies. She sits across from this new face at the table, and...
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...
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