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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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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
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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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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
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On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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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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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant 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. 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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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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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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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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