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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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Blur
Addicted
Speed
Moments
World
Smear
Unholy

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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. 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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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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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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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] 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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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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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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