Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God. Ann Voskamp More Quotes by Ann Voskamp More Quotes From Ann Voskamp I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. Ann Voskamp blogginglightyears All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God? Ann Voskamp gods-willaccomplishused 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. Ann Voskamp crowdsacceptancejesus God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? "To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin. Ann Voskamp making-loveskinsgiving 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. Ann Voskamp blogginglightyears Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are. Ann Voskamp lunchnew-yorkjesus They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense. Ann Voskamp leavinggivingneeds Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds. Ann Voskamp differentstorieswant Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Ann Voskamp championempoweringgirl Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave. Ann Voskamp ungratefulhumanityfirsts I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too? Ann Voskamp anxietyselfjoy Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life. Ann Voskamp blessingjoywater A lack of doxology leads to depravity. Ann Voskamp doxologydepravity When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing. Ann Voskamp woundedhealingrunning The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer. Ann Voskamp brokenhearttwo Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will. Ann Voskamp fullnessjoy God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy. Ann Voskamp thanksjoygiving We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus. Ann Voskamp sanctuarydoorsjesus Wherever you are, be all there." I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive. Ann Voskamp live-in-the-presentregretworry I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano. Ann Voskamp pianopracticewant
