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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.
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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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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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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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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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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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