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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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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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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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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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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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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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God is good and I am always loved.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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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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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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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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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God.
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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