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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Unwavering
Unchanging
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Trusted
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day nothing catches Him off guard.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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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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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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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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Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?
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