Why start a blog when no one really needs more information? Our society already has so much information and truly I get it, not many people on the internet are searching for blog posts anymore. I do this because I love to write, learn and share with others. I have a good group of family and friends from the last blog that followed along and I think enjoyed reading some of the stories and life lessons that we dove into. This blogging thing for me isn’t about another link or trying to make a dollar. This blog is all about sharing stories that I have lived through, walked through and been carried through not on my own, but with God as my guide.
Within the last eight months I keep getting signs that it is time to start sharing some more of my writings. As much as I tried to ignore the nudges from God through keeping myself busy and asking God again and again, is this really what you want me to do? The answer has always been the same.. Yes. From walking into CVS and seeing a fairly new friend that had no idea I even enjoy writing and hearing her words about how much a simple IG story I had written and shared helped her find her way back to her faith, or randomly calling to check on an older patient that I had walked through some scary health moments with when I was practicing as a surgical physician assistant and at the end of our conversation, she whispered, ” I think it’s time to start sharing your writing with the world again.” I never stopped writing, I just stopped the sharing part because the backend stuff to a blog isn’t as easy and glamorous as some make it look. It is work and I really wasn’t in a space for it over the last few years. I have continued to share bits and pieces over on my IG page for the last three years on my blog break, but there’s only so much you can write on a visual platform. So here I am, obeying God, continuing to write and to share here in this space. It may not be a weekly share, but it will be as often as life allows.
The stories and reality that I write about are stories that have made me into the person, the wife, the mom, the daughter, the sister and the friend that I am, but I hope you can see way past me, something much bigger than who I am and into who Christ is within me. All of it is a gift from God. Even the really hard dark moments, the cycles of grief that I have walked through my entire life and in my deepest wounds I have seen and felt God’s glory through all of it. So here it goes, as we build this tiny space here I hope you too can see the beauty in your own stories that God has in place for you. I pray you feel seen, heard and loved through these writings. Thanks for being here!
XX- Ashley
“God is our strength and refuge, an ever-present help in trouble.”
