Ashlin B
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I have been learning how to live without. I’ve also been baking non-stop. If you don’t know me, then let me tell you, I ain’t the kind of girl that bakes. But this week? Brownies, muffins, cookies, cinnamon rolls. I learned a lot about loss when I lived in Apartment G. My doctor told me I had to…
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Women are praised for showing their bare faces. No make-up, no photoshop retouches, their blemishes are put on display and they should learn to be happy about that. A confident girl can embrace all of her flaws, right? Women are scorned for painting their face. They are condemned for putting their best foot forward. They are…
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We’re always wearing gloves, always afraid to get our hands dirty. But it matters where you stand. You know? It seems like you think your indifference doesn’t really affect the world. You act like your fear of conflict is actually a virtue. But love and justice and all the other things that keep you awake at night? They’re…
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I want to see you laugh again. That kind of laughter that used to swallow the world. I want to see you look at the world with a sense of wonder. Even in your brokenness, you always saw the wonder. Did you know there’s a difference in being free and acting free? When you go through…
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Saturday mornings are for cold pizza Most Tuesdays are for dancing in the living room like a bull in a china shop. Four to Six are the hours best for reading books and drinking apple cider. Oh, and Wednesdays are for shoving discouragement on the playground, for giving hopelessness a bloody nose. I wish we…
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“I refuse to be another stepping stone.” I believed her. “Why am I the last step before someone finds their greatest adventure? Here I am, just a stone to be stepped on.” It was easy for me to stay quiet. To sip my latte and just listen because I know that ache. I’ve felt that…
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We’re all cracking open our hearts and thanking the Lord for what we have this year. But sometimes joy is not found only in the things we have, but also in the things we don’t have. As Thanksgiving dances its way across our tables and we pluck birds and mash sweet potatoes, I won’t only…
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There is no disappointment like sitting in the dirt. Knee-deep in mud and glaring straight into the pain of barrenness brings an incomparable grief. Sometimes it feels like that’s all you’ve ever known, and when it fills your entire frame of vision, there’s only one option. Stand up and step back. When you do, you…
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You need the joy in the ordinary. There are times when every day life is just so grand and glorious. I want you to know what that’s like. You need some belly-aching, can’t-breathe, tears-in-your-eyes, knee-slapping laughter. You need to sit in a parked car in a traffic circle with a dipped cone of ice cream with…
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Sometimes, all we really need is to just get away. We just need to drive up to the mountains with a friend. Sit in a cozy cabin, dunking coffee bags into mugs, while talking about how beautiful life really is. We need to laugh at all the ways we’ve changed in the last year. Sometimes,…
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