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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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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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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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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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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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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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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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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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