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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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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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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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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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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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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 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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In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
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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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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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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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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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