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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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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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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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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.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
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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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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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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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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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