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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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