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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
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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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