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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Beauty
Dies
Suffering
Moments
Sink
Daily
Ugly
Days
Sleep

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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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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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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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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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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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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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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.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.
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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.
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Manna today or I starve.
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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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