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 | Oct 16, 2014 | Celebration, Childhood, Faith, Giveaway, Perspective, Poetry, Risk-taking, Surrender
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by Ashley Larkin | Oct 10, 2014 | Five Minute Friday, Surrender, Truth-telling
It happens so often. I feel excited and all revved up to write on Friday. The word is released in Thursday’s late hours, and I see it. Nothing. I trace back over my week, all the memories of faces and moments, all the moments I thought I could write, and they...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 1, 2014 | 31 Days 2014: Doing As I Say, Faith, Perspective, Surrender, Truth-telling
Yesterday I posted that I’d be diving this month into what I say vs. how I live, what I believe vs. how I move through the world. I intended to take an un-bossy look at personal integrity for the next 31 days in order to get at deeper Truth that sometimes passes...
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 29, 2014 | Faith, Fear, Five Minute Friday, One Word: Seek, Surrender
At the beginning of the year, I found myself writing a lot about seeking and the unsettled ache and the continual true end: my home in Christ. It is the place where I am small in his shelter, where I am loved and treasured as the object of his affection, where I...
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