Ashley LandeJesus: Taking the Ultimate L. Real photo of an actual live hacker according to a free stock photo I found on the internet! ============================================...
Ashley LandeWhat About Ashley?!When I spent five days in a psychiatric hospital early last year, part of the program included art therapy. The art therapist had an...
Ashley LandeAre We Even Allowed to Believe This?!?!It was 1993 or so, and I was riding in my brother’s Jeep in Laguna Beach. That close to the Pacific shore, the ocean never lets you...
Ashley LandeWhat you seek lies in front of you, as does what you fear...From the "Trashley" days. Don't even ask 'cause I don't remember... ........................... “What would you do if you met someone who...
Ashley LandeThis is MY llama. - GodLast night Steven and I were conducting some heavy research, watching a marathon of Cesar Millan videos in preparation for getting...
Ashley LandeWhen you need ANSWERS, darnit. What the heck is this? I don't know. I made Steven take pictures of me. He said "stand by the light, people love that light stuff!" So...
Ashley LandeAnd there are no truths outside the gates of Eden. “At that time Jesus said, ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and...
Ashley LandeGod Takes Care of Me. “God takes care of me.” The words come so easily for her, reflexively, even. In their wake sparkles a warm chuckle and then a smile,...
Ashley LandeThis isn't the resurrection I expected.This isn’t the resurrection I expected. The thought assailed my mind last night, unbidden and dangerous-sounding, fringed as it was with,...
Ashley LandeWant to Tame the Anxiety Monster? Try the Untamed God. “Well, mama,” my 8-year-old daughter began, shrugging. “At least God still knows how many hairs are on your head!” I stared dejectedly at...
Ashley LandeDaring to Hope Boldly, Defiantly, & Against All Seen Reality or: Sounds Like a Personal Problem.My neighbor, Kay, is transferred to a nursing home after her hospital stay, a surprisingly spacious room but one with a roommate who has...
Ashley LandeWhen Grief is Anger“I trade my secrets one by one, lessening my burden, reclaiming praise. Every day I say I AM, let thanks cleanse my mouth. A body shouts...
Ashley LandeDeath, Where is Thy Sting? Here, Now: Or So It Seems...I never had to consider death before, never had to witness its relentless impinging on life. Now it’s all I see. I help my elderly...
Ashley LandeLet Us Proclaim the Mystery of Faith, Pt. II: Letters from Prison, AA, & When Words Aren't EnoughI walk out to the mailbox and pull out an envelope with a now-familiar stamp on the back, alerting me that it has been sent from a...
Ashley LandeLet Us Proclaim the Mystery of Faith, Pt. 1: Unanswered Prayers and Rotten EggsI notice the broody hen first because I fear she’s gone missing, eviscerated stealthily in the night by some accursed varmint from among...
Ashley LandeDeath, Infertility, The Great Rash of 2018 & Other Times I've Gotten Lovingly Schooled by GodIt is so strange, what triggers grief. The morning after poison ivy welts began to appear on my forehead and arm I woke up to a swollen...
Ashley LandeEven Angels Long to Look Into These Things. I wasn’t paying attention the moment my dad actually died. I just realized the room was silent, a hideous silence, the sudden absence of...
Ashley LandeJust Say It. “Sometimes wishing is the wings the truth comes true on. Sometimes the truth is what sets us wishing for it.” – Frederick Buechner We...
Ashley LandeBecause she was my sister. I sit alongside my mother in the funeral parlor two days after Lia’s death, this new terrible upside-down world springing into hideous...
Ashley LandeA Police Station. A Hospice. An Empty Womb.One who is full loathes honey from the comb, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet. – Proverbs 27:7 For my flesh is real...