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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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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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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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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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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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Where ever you are be all there
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
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