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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Always
Wounded
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Healing
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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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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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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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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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.
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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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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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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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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
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The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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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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