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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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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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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
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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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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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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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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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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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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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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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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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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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