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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
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Sink
Daily
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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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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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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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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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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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 Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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