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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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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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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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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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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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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
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