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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Prostitution
Church
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Thing

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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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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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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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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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What is time for if not to bless?
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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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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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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. 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.
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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