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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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Writer
Energy
Often
Seems
Sometimes
Muster
Stress
Anxiety
Seem
Easier

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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 prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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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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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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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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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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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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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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