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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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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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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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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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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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Manna today or I starve.
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