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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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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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