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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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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
Ann Voskamp
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The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.
Ann Voskamp
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On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
Ann Voskamp
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Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
Ann Voskamp
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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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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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
Ann Voskamp
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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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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.
Ann Voskamp
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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
Ann Voskamp
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
Ann Voskamp
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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.
Ann Voskamp
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Hurry always empties a soul.
Ann Voskamp
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
Ann Voskamp
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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
Ann Voskamp
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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.
Ann Voskamp
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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.
Ann Voskamp