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 | 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 | Oct 2, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Faith, Fear, Imperfect Prose, One Word: Trust, Tell His Story, Trust
I walk downstairs to the kitchen counter where I pick up my phone and check the emails that filled my inbox overnight. I boil the water for coffee, grind the beans, fill the French press and my mug with hot from the tap so they’ll be good and ready. The grounds...
by Ashley Larkin | Sep 19, 2013 | Imperfect Prose, One Word: Trust, Open endings, Sorrow, Tell His Story, Trust, Truth-telling
“If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.” – Anne Lamott,...
by Ashley Larkin | Sep 10, 2013 | Childhood, Faith, Family, Imperfect Prose, Just Write, Mothering, One Word: Trust, Perspective, Sorrow, Tell His Story, Trust, Truth-telling
I’m sitting here in the sticky air of my basement in front of the computer while Lala watches a show. It’s giving me a few minutes to write and so I’m choosing to be thankful, rather than guilty. Within the last 24 hours, I’ve read three great...
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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