A few quotes from "One Thousand Gifts" by Ann Voskamp.
"Here are gifts worth waiting 365 days for, gifts worth counting to one thousand for, gifts that will unbelievably emerge out of the deathly dark. Joy is always worth the wait, and fully living worth the believing." (emphasis mine.)
"Only the Word is the answer to rightly reading the world, because the Word has nail scarred hands that cup our face close, wipe away the tears running down, has eyes to look deep into our brimming ache, and whisper, 'I know. I know.'"
"Evil is... a willful choice to turn away from the full goodness of God..."
"When I realize that it is not God Who is in my debt, but I who am in His great debt, then doesn't it all become gift?"
"...the God Who governs all can be shouted at when I bruise, and I can cry and I can howl and He embraces the David-hearts who pound hard on His heart with their grief... I feel Him hold me-- a flailing child tired in Father's arms. And I can hear Him sooth soft, 'Are your ways My ways, child? Can you eat My manna, sustain on My mystery? Can you believe that I tenderly, tirelessly work for all the best good of the whole world-- because My flame of love for you can never, ever be quenched?'"
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Goodbye individual state rights. Well... eventually. I didn't think there were so many stupid people in Missouri.
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"Become a nun, and I'll leave you alone." I laughed out loud as I read this statement from a friend in a Facebook message earl...
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Okay, so... I'm a couple of edits away from self-publishing my first novel. However, I need to figure out some stuff with the cover art....
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