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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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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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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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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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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.
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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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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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What is time for if not to bless?
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