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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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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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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard 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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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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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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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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