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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?

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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