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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
Mind
Things
Unseen

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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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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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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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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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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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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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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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