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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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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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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. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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I began [blogging] 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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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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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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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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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
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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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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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