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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Busy
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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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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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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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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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What is time for if not to bless?
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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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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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.
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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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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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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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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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Manna today or I starve.
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