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Ann Voskamp

"Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier."

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Donna Grant

"As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleeping, lying awake, fearing a bully, fearing a cruel competition, dreading lest they cannot make good, ill of some illness they cannot comprehend, distressed by some irrational quarrel, maddened by some thwarted instinct or some suppressed perverted desire."

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Donna Grant

"Worrying about things that haven't happened yet is like riding on the hood of your car-what's the point?"

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier."

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Donna Grant

"Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital."

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Donna Grant

"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."

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Donna Grant

"Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids."

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Donna Grant

"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder, will the water prove deep enough? Will my words be satisfactory?"

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Donna Grant

"There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling."

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Donna Grant

"All problems begin when we start worrying what others think of us."

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Ann Voskamp
"When I fully enter time's swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here."

Presence

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Ann Voskamp
"I wear the lens of the Word and all the world transfigures into the Beauty of Christ and 'everything is eucharisteo'."

Faith

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Ann Voskamp
"From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story."

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Ann Voskamp
"Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier."

Anxiety

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Ann Voskamp
"This. I live in this place, make porridge, scrub toilets, do laundry, and for days, weeks, I am brave and I do get out of bed and I think on this. I study this, the full life, the being fully ready for the end. I start to think that maybe there is a way out of nightmares to dreams? Maybe?"

Endurance

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Ann Voskamp
"I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep."

Beauty

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Ann Voskamp
"The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see."

Gratitude

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Ann Voskamp
"Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will."

Surrender

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Ann Voskamp
"In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ."

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Ann Voskamp
"Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.It means "full of grace."

Identity

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