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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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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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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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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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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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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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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.
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Manna today or I starve.
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