Ashley B Smith

09/24/2025

Christianity > Race

09/24/2025

Clocked my own tea today…

09/24/2025

It’s time to ride…

09/23/2025

09/23/2025

I’m not ashamed in the least…

My truth is setting me free…

09/22/2025

🎉 I earned the emerging talent badge this week, recognizing me for creating engaging content that sparks an interest among my fans!

09/22/2025

It’s been a a week…
…but so see clearer than I’ve ever seen before.

And I’m walking fully and unapologetically into it all in by His design.

05/15/2025

People love me… until I bring logic and accountability into the conversation.

Turns out, some people don’t want growth—they want agreement.

05/15/2025

“Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent— the Lord detests them both.” — Proverbs 17:15 (NIV)

So how do we, as wives and mothers, cheer on a system that does exactly what God detests?

We can’t say we’re for righteousness and still root for destruction just because it’s culturally popular.

05/11/2025

Happy Mothwr’s Day!

05/08/2025

Lean not on your own understanding…
…even with your children.

This morning, Ava was adamant about wearing a dress.

At first, I didn’t understand why it mattered so much—until I paused and asked her.

“Because it makes me feel pretty and beautiful. Like a lady,” she answered.

Instantly, a memory came flooding back—one where at 14, I refused to wear a dress to church.

Back then, my resistance felt like rebellion.
My parents took me to juvenile detention to “scare me straight.” It didn’t work.

I couldn’t see it then, but I see it clearly now: They were doing the best they could with what they had, navigating parenting and adoption through lenses I didn’t yet understand.

Today, with Ava, I realized God was using this small moment to gently remind me how far I’ve come. I chose to respond differently—not from a place of frustration, but with compassion and curiosity.

It wasn’t about my parents’ mistakes—it was about my own growth and the generational healing happening right now, through something as simple as a dress.

Sometimes God uses our children not just to teach us how to raise them better, but to heal pieces of our younger selves we didn’t even realize were hurting.

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🌱 What I Grew:

🪴 Compassion for my parents’ parenting—acknowledging they did their best.
🪴 Recognition of my own growth from then to now.
🪴 Understanding that parenting can be the gateway to our deepest healing.

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✨ Planted Seeds for Our Village:

🌱 Ask your kids “why” before reacting—it could be healing for both of you.
🌱 Give your parents grace—they navigated life without the tools we now have.
🌱 Embrace each parenting moment as a chance to rewrite generational stories with empathy and wisdom.

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🤞🏾 Verse to Hold On To:

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”
— Proverbs 3:5 (NIV)

05/07/2025

Hit that PiNK today for my girl Amanee, cause round here