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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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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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