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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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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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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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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. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.
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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
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All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?
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The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.
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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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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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