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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Vertical
Still
Island
Nothing
Stillness
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Islands
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Quiet
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Oasis

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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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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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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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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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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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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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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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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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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. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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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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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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Where ever you are be all there
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