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The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day nothing catches Him off guard.
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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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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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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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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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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