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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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Choice
Choose
Joy
Choices
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Well
Stress
Busy

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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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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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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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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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The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. 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.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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Manna today or I starve.
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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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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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