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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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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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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
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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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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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Where ever you are be all there
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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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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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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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