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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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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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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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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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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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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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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
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