by Ashley Larkin | Mar 6, 2015 | Five Minute Friday, Mothering, Perspective, Poetry, Rest, Surrender
i am scattered bits, disconnected, harried, shaken and God bids walk, listen birds call and caw and pound, woodpecker makes morse on a hollowing limb, crow open beak screams from a high branch, lark song rises praise i am like the birds i flit, dart from a branch to...
by Ashley Larkin | Feb 8, 2015 | #sundaycirclegroup, Rest
This morning, I’m pleased to share a piece I wrote for Sunday Circle Group — a new collective for which I’m a contributor — about meeting God in the bathtub. Sunday Circle Group is an extension of Outside the City Gate and is made up...
by Ashley Larkin | Jan 14, 2014 | Faith, Family, Grace, Gratitude, Mothering, One Word: Seek, Rest
When we hunger to belong, it is home we seek. When we toss, turn, stirring and straining, it is home we want. When we wrap in blankets, warm water and embraces and long to stay right here always, it is home. When we ache for assurance, tenderness, understanding, it is...
by Ashley Larkin | Dec 14, 2013 | Celebration, Community, Faith, Family, Mothering, Perspective, Rest
Lala was only repeating what she’d seen on a commercial, sung by wide-eyed frantic sweater-clad people carrying overflowing shopping bags, rushing to mark items off their holiday lists. While we decorated our house in the first days of the season, I heard her...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 31, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Childhood, Faith, Grace, Gratitude, Mothering, Perspective, Redemption, Rest, Risk-taking, Trust, Truth-telling
The recovering perfectionist in me wants to tie this 31 day series in the most gorgeous grosgrain ribbon. Leave you dancing with a completed work of art, sparkles and moonshine in its wake. But the part of me that calls you friend would rather be real and shout,...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 15, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Perspective, Rest, Surrender
What makes us truly human may not be how fast we are able to accomplish a task but what we experience fully, carefully, and quietly in the process. – Makoto Fujimura, Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture _____________ This is Day 15 of Right Here...
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