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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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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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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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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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At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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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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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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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).
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Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.
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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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