Ashleigh Baker

Ashleigh was an active part of YLCF from 2006 through 2011. She continues to seek poetry in prose on her blog, where she shares her heart and her home.
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And We Have A Winner!

Thank you all for your wonderful participation in our Peek Into Your Day Carnival! I’d say how much I loved it, how encouraged I was, and maybe even how many hours I spent curled up on my couch that drizzly Wednesday morning perusing your lives… but I think Lanier already covered most of it. It…

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A Peek Into Your Day

Welcome to the “A Peek Into Your Day” blog carnival! Over the course of the past few weeks, we’ve enjoyed a behind the scenes look into the real, day-to-day lives of the YLCF team members. You’ve watched us making meals, running errands, feeding animals, hurrying to softball games, writing articles, and, yes, even picking up…

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Friday in Sunny Southern California

This is the last installment from one of us in our Day in the Life of the Team series, but not the end of the fun! Now it’s YOUR turn! Don’t miss the “A Peek Into Your Day” Blog Carnival, hosted by YLCF, next Wednesday, October 28! I’d like to say our Fridays are anything…

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Written by You–Posts and Carnivals

Young Ladies Christian Fellowship is a place for young ladies… whether young in age or young in heart. We come here from many different seasons of life. Some are single, some are planning weddings, some are learning the basics of homemaking, some are rocking babies, some are busy with school and soccer games, some have…

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Lasting Love

It is my firmly held belief that each spouse in every marriage ought to perpetually have on his or her nightstand a good book on the topic of marriage. This is not to say, exactly, that John and I are both devouring a new marriage book every day, nor that my primary reading is necessarily…

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Marriage Is Not My Highest Calling
Part Two

Click here if you missed Part One. We often speak of things such as being a wife or mother as God’s calling. “This is my highest and noblest calling,” we might declare. I beg to differ. God’s calling to a life is the thing that will never, under any circumstance, change in that life. Throughout…

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Marriage Is Not My Highest Calling

I believe strongly and wholeheartedly in solid, godly marriages. Marriage is an awe-inspiring, truly blissful thing and something to be lauded and heralded as the God-ordained institution it is. We are people created for marriage and, once married, we should strive daily, at every possible opportunity to encourage each other toward even stronger, even holier marriages. But marriage is…

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A Noble Task

I remember well my mom always telling me that a Christian woman does not even need to venture outside her home to minister. Of course, this does not mean that she shouldn’t ever minister outside her home, but it is amazing to me how true it is that God will bring ministry right to her…

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