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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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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? 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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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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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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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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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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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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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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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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