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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
Ann Voskamp
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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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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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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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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.
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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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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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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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