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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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