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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Parenthood
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Holiest
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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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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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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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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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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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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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've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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