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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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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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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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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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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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