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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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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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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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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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