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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Bulls
Rushing
Shops
China
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Lives

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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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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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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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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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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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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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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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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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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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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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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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