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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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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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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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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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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
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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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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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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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Manna today or I starve.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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