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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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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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Hurry always empties a soul.
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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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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. 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.
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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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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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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.
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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