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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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Happiest
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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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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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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
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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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