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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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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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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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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.
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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began 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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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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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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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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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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