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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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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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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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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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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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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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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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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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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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