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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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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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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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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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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?
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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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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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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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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
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