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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Really
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Joy
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] 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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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
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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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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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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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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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Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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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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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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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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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
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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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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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