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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Reveals
Mirrors

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We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
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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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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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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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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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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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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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