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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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Unholy
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Addicted
Speed
Moments
World
Smear

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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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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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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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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 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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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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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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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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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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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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