About
May 27th, 2008
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
~Jane Austen
About….me? I’m Ashley, wife to a Brad Pitt look alike (or so I’m told), and mom to 3 wild little girls who seem to be a reincarnation of my two sisters and I.
I stay at home, homeschool my girls, change lots of diapers, chat on the phone a little too much and clean obsessively ALL DAY LONG. It’s a problem, but I’m God’s working on it. I think my biggest breakthrough was realizing that I am definitely a Martha, which is depressing since she is a grump end everyone loves Mary. But I’m trying to relax and embrace the fact that everything is NOT in my control….it’s really hard.
I tend to be a bit of a pessimist, something else I’m really trying to get past. It occurred to me a while back that I really have nothing to be negative about because I am living my dream. That may sound silly, but aside from the tight budget and the not so fabulous abs, my life is exactly what I always hoped for…and so much more.
I love Jesus, and wake up every day praying for help to be yielded to His Spirit, and go to sleep asking for forgiveness for the hundreds of ways I chose my will over His all day. I can only rest in His love.
This blog is my chance to write. A reason to sit still and really think for a bit. A place to share all the amazing things that only seem to happen when no one is around to hear about it. And an opportunity to reflect on what God is doing in this dream world of mine.
For more intro you can read my first post here.
I love quotes, so they’ll show up a lot.
Especially ones by Elisabeth Elliot. She just always seems to sum things up so perfectly….
God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service.
I will find rest nowhere but in His will, and that will is infinitely, immeasurably, unspeakably beyond
my largest notion of what He is up to.
…He gives all the light we need for trust and obedience.
You can contact me at ashley@oneordinaryday.com
