I am so excited for you to get to know Ashleigh! She is one of those delightful humans you feel like you’ve known your whole life right off the bat. Warm, joyful, and welcoming, Ashleigh and her husband Daniel have 2 elementary age kids, one of whom is a classmate to my son Opie.

If you're local to La Grange, you may have seen her walking her GSP, which I learned is the insider term for German Short-haired Pointer. She grew up in a now large Austin suburb called Hutto when it was just a small country town, and first came to Woven when she was invited to our annual Advent gathering by a neighbor.

This conversation hits on everything from an unexpected pregnancy and shame, to seeking to fill a void and pursuing counseling, to the desperate prayers we pray when we don’t even know if anyone is listening. Today we pick up the conversation with Ashleigh sharing some of her first memories of how her faith was formed at an early age.

Memorable Quotes:

“Even though I’ve done all these things, and achieved all these things, in high school, in college, undergrad, masters, I just kinda felt like - Ok, so? This is great, this is a wonderful achievement, but I didn’t feel like it was enough. I was hungry for more and I didn’t know what that was.”

“I started noticing our marriage going down this road of not what I wanted and I knew it wasn’t something he wanted either, and I just didn’t know what to do about it. I had no idea what to do about it, and I knew something was missing, I knew that we could do better than this, we, as a team, as a marriage can do better than this.”

Reflections on desperate prayer: “Now that I think about it, I didn’t ask for a specific thing, I just asked for help.”

“I just felt like I wasn’t good enough, and I think we’ve all been in that place.”

“It wasn’t because of the people, it was just what I was creating in my mind.”

“In the Bible, the women do a lot, they do a lot that really shift the story and change the course.”