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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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Towards
Worst
Anything
Best
Fixate
Everything
Fixing
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Render
Good
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Incapable

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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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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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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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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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Where ever you are be all there
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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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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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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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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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. 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.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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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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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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