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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).
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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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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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I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
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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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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God.
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.
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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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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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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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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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