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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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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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Manna today or I starve.
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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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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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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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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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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
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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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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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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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