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[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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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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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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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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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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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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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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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.
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