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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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Urgent
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Ugly
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Amateurs

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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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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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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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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
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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.
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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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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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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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