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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Focus
Change
Heart
Mind
Things
Unseen
Visible

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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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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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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 answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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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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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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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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What is time for if not to bless?
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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 want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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