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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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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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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.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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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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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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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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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.
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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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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
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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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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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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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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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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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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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