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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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Dies
Waters
Water
Blessings
Living
Blessing
Life
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Joy
Grace
Alive
Dams
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Tight

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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
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Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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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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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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