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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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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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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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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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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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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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