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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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