Morning Star Fellowship - part 12

The history of Morning Star Fellowship continues.  I want to start talking about Shawn Hart's two younger sisters, Ashley and Ruth.  It looks like I'm going to talk about Ashley in two parts. The first part focuses on Ashley while the second part will focus on her children.

Ashley Hart (part 1)
Ashley was a blue-eyed blonde like her mother.  Her brother and sister both had brown eyes and brown hair like their father.  Ashley was known as the real pretty one.  Though her sister Ruth was also pretty.

Ashley strove to be perfect in everything.  Her long shoulder-length hair was always neatly brushed in place.  Her clothes were always ironed, and her make-up was always flawless.  Ashley was the one who was the straight "A" student.  She had perfect attendance at school, and at Church.  She wanted to be a perfect Christian, and the perfect friend.  She was nice, sweet and respectful to everyone.

After Ashley graduated from high school she married her high school sweetheart, Glen Gale.  He was from a well-to-do Christian family.  Ashley and Glen lived with his parents while he went to law school.  He wanted to be a lawyer just like his father.  They all lived in a big 6 bedroom house with servants who waited on them.  The servants lived in a small 4 apartment cottage next to the house.  After Glen finished law school, he went to work at his father's law firm.  Eventually Ashley and Glen and their children moved to their own big 6 bedroom house.  Their only servant was a housekeeper who also helped with the cooking.  She lived in the house with the family.

Ashley had always wanted to have about 3 or 4 children.  She and Glen had 4 children - a son and three daughters.  Ashley wanted to be the perfect wife and the perfect mother.  She was a stay-at-home mom who made sure the house was always in perfect working order.  Everything was always neatly in place, and nothing was left lying on the floor - even in the children's bedrooms.  Meals were promptly served at the same time 7 days a week.  Breakfast was always at 6 am, lunch was always at 12 noon, and dinner was always at 6 pm.  Except on Sunday nights dinner was served at 8 pm - after the evening Church service.  Ashley was also involved with the Women's Ministry at Church.  She attended the ladies' Bible study,  the monthly ladies' brunch, and all other events associated with the Women's Ministry.  Besides all of that, Ashley always drove her children to school and picked them all up after school.  Her children never experienced riding a school bus or waiting at a school bus stop.  She also drove them to all school/Church activities that they were involved in.  Ashley always made sure that everyone was always on time - never late.

Marie, Ashley's mom, often asked her, "Daughter, don't you let anything be in disarray or late or missed?"

Ashley replied, "No, Mom, everything has to be perfect."

"Who told you that?"

"I believe that we're supposed to always be perfect."

"Where in the Bible do you read that?"

Ashley could not figure out how to respond to that.  She knew it wasn't exactly in the Bible.  Except there was something in there where Jesus had told the disciples to be perfect as their Heavenly Father was perfect.  What did Jesus really mean by that anyway?

"Only God is perfect," Mom always said.