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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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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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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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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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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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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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Manna today or I starve.
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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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