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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Writer
Never
Naked
Loving
Deserve
Honor
Stop
Someone
Body
Deserves
Soul
Shared

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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] 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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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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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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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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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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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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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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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.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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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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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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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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