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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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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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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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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’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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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 if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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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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We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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