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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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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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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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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. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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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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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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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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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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