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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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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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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. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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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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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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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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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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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.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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