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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Anything
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Fixate
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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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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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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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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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. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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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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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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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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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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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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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
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