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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Lazy
Fixed
Stress
Evidence
Worry
Keep
Undisciplined
Soul
Gaze
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