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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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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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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’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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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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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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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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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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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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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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