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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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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Heart
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Things
Unseen

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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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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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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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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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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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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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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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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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