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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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Offering
Islands
Asking
Quiet
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Oasis
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Stillness

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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
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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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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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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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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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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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