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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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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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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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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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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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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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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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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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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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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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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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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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