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What is time for if not to bless?

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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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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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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