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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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Christ
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Life
Contemplating
Blessings
Blessing
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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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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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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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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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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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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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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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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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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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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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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