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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
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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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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.
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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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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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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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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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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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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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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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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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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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