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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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At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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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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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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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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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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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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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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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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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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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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