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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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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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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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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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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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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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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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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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