It's Okay...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
How much do I adore this print from Etsy above? (Side Note: how obsessed on a scale of 1-10 am I of Etsy? 500 Bazillion). I think as I typed up the "slow down" blog post I love writing just little gems. Little sparkle gems for you to put in your little pockets of your heart and to maybe remember them.

So mistakes...I by no stretch of the imagination am asking for you to be a grace abuser (def: someone who knows Jesus, knows of His grace but accepts Him and then doesn't change. lives life for herself. like joe's crosstalk this summer when he talked about being a punt returner that always waved for fair catch.) in that you make mistakes knowingly and freely just to live how you want to. I am talking about being so scared to make a mistake because it means you aren't perfect. It would mean you don't have everything together. It would mean you need Jesus just as much as the next girl. It's okay my sweet friends to not have it together at all times. Goodness, as I type I am in grey sweats, grey large tshirt and my face has salt on it from running earlier at which point I felt like dying. There is a roast bubbling in the crock pot but it's not quite thickening like I thought so it's just grey water around it. I have pink little sweatpants that have, well pee, on them from a certain little secondborn hung on the washer needing to wash. My bed is made but my closet has clothes all up on the floor in there. I am still needing to finish a project that was due last week for Kanakuk (sorry Trish) and I have nothing red to wear for the Arkansas Game this weekend which is on my mind more than should be appropriately so. Having life all together at all times would be so...boring.

So see...in that summation of my day (really just this hour) I am a hot mess. I don't just make mistakes, my life is usually a big mistake where I realize I NEED Jesus so much. It's like stupid that He loves me so so much for all my heaps of mistakes, craziness, and quirks...but He loves me even in lots of grey.

Be awesome & love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Slow Down...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Oh, how I adore this beautiful print above. I love the play on the message by bumping down the "low." I just love it. I worry sometimes this world is just too fast. I look at even gals at Branson High school and they are so busy. Schoolwork, sports, community service, jobs and the list goes on and on. These are great girls...great, godly girls. But sometimes I just want to slow them down. Remind them that being the busiest or the brainiest or the beautiest (I know it's not a word but it went with my rhythm) is NOT the most important thing. To be able to slow down and cuddle on the couch with your big brother to watch the Sing Off. To be able to slow down to go on a caramel apple spice run with your daddio. To be able to slow down to grab your friend's hand to say, "are you okay?"

Sweet girls...slow down. In heaven, you being the top 3% of your class will not be the deciding factor of entrance or not. In heaven, you being involved in EVERYTHING will not be a part of the process once there. Slow down, enjoy Jesus, love people...

Be awesome & love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Love Whooooo You Are...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
It is so interesting...whether you are 86, 43, 30, or 15...we all STRUGGLE to LOVE who the Lord has made us to be. Why is this? Why do we not see the beautiful creation that Jesus made? Instead we see all the bad, all the negative, all the things we want changed. I type this today thinking of one of my dearest friends...and every other friend...and for that matter me.

We have to choose each day to wrap up in the love of Jesus and the perfect Creator He is like a fall scarf on a cool day. His love and purpose in us is so much bigger than anything we could fathom with our feeble, tiny minds (mine tinier than others). So today seize this...love who you are b/c of who made you.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com