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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Life
Amateurs
Contradictory
Urgent
Slow
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Ugly
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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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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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? 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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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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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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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.
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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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