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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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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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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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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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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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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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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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