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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?

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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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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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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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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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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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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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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