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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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Handicaps
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Life
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.
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Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.
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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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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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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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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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Where ever you are be all there
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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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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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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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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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