Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully. Ann Voskamp More Quotes by Ann Voskamp More Quotes From Ann Voskamp I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano. Ann Voskamp piano practice want Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow. Ann Voskamp urgent life-is I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth reflecting back at me: Every time fear freezes and worry writhes, every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God? That I really don't believe? But if I'm grateful to the Bridge Builder for the crossing of a million strong bridges, thankful for a million faithful moments, my life speaks my beliefs and I trust Him again. Ann Voskamp stress strong believe 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). Ann Voskamp work-out grief light Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy. Ann Voskamp gratitude winning giving 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. Ann Voskamp earth faces firsts Manna today or I starve. Ann Voskamp today Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God? Ann Voskamp thanksgiving stress worry Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe. Ann Voskamp thanksgiving causes believe The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life. Ann Voskamp source littles rooms Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives. Ann Voskamp moments missing attention God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints. Ann Voskamp disappoint people Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things Ann Voskamp different natural world Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. Ann Voskamp rescue suffering joy Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks? Ann Voskamp gratitude thanksgiving joy Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing. Ann Voskamp perspective writing running When grief is deepest, words are fewest. Ann Voskamp grief I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse? Ann Voskamp pulse answers blood 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. Ann Voskamp thug soul joy In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible. Ann Voskamp visible invisible missing
