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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
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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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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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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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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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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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