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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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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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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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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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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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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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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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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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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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