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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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