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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Stress
Anxiety
Seem
Easier
Energy
Often
Seems
Sometimes
Muster

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Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
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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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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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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging 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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Thanksgiving creates abundance and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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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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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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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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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.
Ann Voskamp
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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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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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. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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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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