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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Expectations
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Softly
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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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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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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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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.
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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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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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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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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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