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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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Manna today or I starve.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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