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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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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a 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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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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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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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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What is time for if not to bless?
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.
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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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Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
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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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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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