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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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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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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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