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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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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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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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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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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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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
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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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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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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.
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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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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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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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