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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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Spirituality
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Joy
Doubt
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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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?
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
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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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Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
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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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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.
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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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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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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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