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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
Hurry
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
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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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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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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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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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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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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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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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