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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
Ann Voskamp
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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
Ann Voskamp
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?
Ann Voskamp
I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
Ann Voskamp
Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
Ann Voskamp
So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
Ann Voskamp
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.
Ann Voskamp
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.
Ann Voskamp
I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
Ann Voskamp
Where ever you are be all there
Ann Voskamp
I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. 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.
Ann Voskamp
Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
Ann Voskamp
How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
Ann Voskamp
Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
Ann Voskamp
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.
Ann Voskamp
God gives us time. And who has time for God?
Ann Voskamp
You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
Ann Voskamp
God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
Ann Voskamp
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.
Ann Voskamp
In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
Ann Voskamp