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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it 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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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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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 always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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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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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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