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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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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.
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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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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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Manna today or I starve.
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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. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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