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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Air
Worry
Belief
Gone
Wrong
Peace
Right
Provision
Believe
Everywhere

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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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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 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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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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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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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.
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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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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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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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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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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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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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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.
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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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