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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).
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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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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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Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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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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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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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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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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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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