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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Hunger
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day nothing catches Him off guard.
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In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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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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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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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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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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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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