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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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Unseen
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Heart
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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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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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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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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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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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?
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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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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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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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