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Hurry always empties a soul.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Empties
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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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The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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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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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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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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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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