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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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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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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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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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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
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