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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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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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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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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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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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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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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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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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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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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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