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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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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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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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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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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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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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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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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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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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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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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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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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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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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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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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