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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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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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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day nothing catches Him off guard.
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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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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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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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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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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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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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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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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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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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