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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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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 change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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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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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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