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{Ashley}

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.-A.W. Tozer

About Me

Ashley here.

I am what I am

by the

Grace of God.

I love life.

Not just the breathing part of it.

But the laughing, loving,

smiling, & yes, even the hurting parts.

Laughing until breathing is a difficult task

is what it's all about.

Seeing people smile,

truly smile, makes me

truly smile.

This love for the violin/fiddle

fills my heart.

(The dobro also, but only in the future

will my hands be on one.)

Listening is something I love to do.

Maybe it is really just the learning from listening

that I love.

Yeah, that's what it is.

One of the greatest things I have learned so far in

life from listening is

"It never hurts to be nice."

Remember that.

Life is awesome.

I didn't say perfect, but

Awesome.

It has its ups & definitely its downs, but the Lord

Blesses

me daily more than I could even begin to know myself.

There is nothing like being a Christian.

Nothing.

I am who I am.

Like I said before,

All by the

Grace of God.


My Interests

To laugh often and love much , to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends , to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better , whether by a healthy child, a garden patch...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music:

~Tyler Hilton ~The Marksmen ~Clark Brothers ~Jim VanCleve ~Mark O'Connor ~Andy Leftwich ~Andy Hall ~Concord Baptist Youth Choir ~Celtic Thunder ~Scarlet Kings ~Dashboard Confessional ~Alison Krauss & Union Station ~Nickel Creek ~Chris Thile ~Marc Broussard ~Ernie Hauss & Signture Sound ~Ball Brothers ~Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals ~Michael Buble ~Harry Connick Jr. ~The Shook's ~Hanson ~Josh Turner ~Joshua Bell ~Teddy Geiger ~Lady Antebellum ~Tin Cup Gypsy

Movies:

~A Love Song For Bobby Long ~The Sandlot ~Facing the Giants ~Gone Baby, Gone ~Singin' In the Rain ~Pride & Prejudice ~August Rush ~Rebel Without a Cause

Television:

~My Family ~Criminal Minds ~Anderson Cooper 360

Books:

This could be a long list because reading is my thing... ~KJV Bible, ~Dispatches From the Edge, ~The Picture of Dorian Gray, ~The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, ~From Disgrace to Grace, ~Pride & Prejudice, ~The Great Gatsby, ~To Kill a Mockingbird, ~After the Rains, ~The China Garden, ~Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, ~No Shame, No Fear, ~Anything Meg Cabot, ~Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom, ~The Home, ~That Book of Perfectly Useless Information, ~Love Comes Softly Series, ~Once Upon a Marigold, ~Enthusiasm, ~Beauty, ~A Time to Kill, ~Demon in My View, ~Tuck Everlasting, ~Dr. Suess anything(but I must read them out loud), ~Pilgrim's Progress, ~A Lesson Before Dying, ~Shattered Mirror, ~James Dean: The Biography, ~I Capture the Castle, ~The Pact ~& so on & so on... ~

My Blog

Does It Bother You?

I thought about not writing this, but God wouldn't quit telling me to. For months now the Lord has been burdening my heart to some things going on in the country. I look around, and it breaks my he...
Posted by {Ashley} on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:12:00 PST

Go Tell It

Awhile back I had my testimony on here, but I went and deleted all the blog posts I had made.  I know I need to put this back on here.  Things have changed in it. (No, not the way I was save...
Posted by {Ashley} on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:59:00 PST

Run away from start to finish though it never ends

It's been one long week.  I'm not complaining about it though.  The campers at work are starting to come in, so it's odd working when there are actually people running around.  I like i...
Posted by {Ashley} on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:24:00 PST

He Knew Me, Yet He Loved Me

It's been some time since I last wrote a blog.  I've been enormously busy for the past weeks.  It's all been great though.  Except for the whole working part where I always seem to hurt...
Posted by {Ashley} on Tue, 27 May 2008 08:30:00 PST

More Than Enough

I would be a liar if I said I didn’t feel like just giving up at times. Giving up on just about everything. I have had to learn much in the last eight months that I never imagined. The preacher ...
Posted by {Ashley} on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:55:00 PST

Know that I Care

I wish I could write what my heart is feeling right now.  I wish I could show you all the tears that I cannot control falling from my eyes.  God burdened me tonight in a way unlike I think H...
Posted by {Ashley} on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:15:00 PST

Where art thou?

And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?~Gen. 3:9 It’s crazy at how amazed at can be when it comes to God.  You think I would be over being amazed sometimes...
Posted by {Ashley} on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:55:00 PST

Jesus Never Fails

I should be dozing off to sleep right now, but for once, I’m actually not tired.  I could probably easily go to sleep just because I’m not tired.  That’s usually how it goe...
Posted by {Ashley} on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:48:00 PST

He that is without sin among you...

Maybe some of you out there watched the special Diane Sawyer did on prostitution that aired tonight.  I thought long and hard about watching it.  Sounds crazy, but I really did.  I&rsqu...
Posted by {Ashley} on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:55:00 PST

If only one more soul

I am finally back home after an insanely long, but fun, week.  Tired is such an understatement for the way I feel right now.  Last night, or this morning we were finally finished painting.&n...
Posted by {Ashley} on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:08:00 PST