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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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Joy
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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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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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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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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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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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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[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 moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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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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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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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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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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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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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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