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

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Perfection
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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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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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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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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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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began 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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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.
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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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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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