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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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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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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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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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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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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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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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