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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
Ann Voskamp
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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.
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