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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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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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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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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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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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Where ever you are be all there
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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