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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Intimacy
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Manna today or I starve.
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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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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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A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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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.
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Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day nothing catches Him off guard.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.
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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.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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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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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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