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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
Ann Voskamp
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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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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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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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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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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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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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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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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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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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