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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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Addicted
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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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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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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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 want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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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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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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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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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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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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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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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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