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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
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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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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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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 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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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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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.
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