Anna

“Here I can become the blessing, a little life that multiplies joy, making the larger world a better place.
God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Those child photos, that wonder I experienced firsthand through her eyes--'How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it!'--Was that it? I had just held evidence of it.
The joy of small that makes life large.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“But the irony: Don't I often want to desperately wriggle free of the confines of a small life? Yet when I stand before immensity that heightens my smallness--I have never felt sadness. Only burgeoning wonder. Is it because within each frame of finite flesh lies the likeness of infinite God? In all things large and spectacular, we recognize glimpses of home and the call to our own deeper chemistry. Do we writhe to peel out of our smallness and into the big life because that fits our inborn God-image?”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Black Minx never moved. She seemed to know what this was all about. She accepted their offerings, their embraces, in a very queenly way. Her manner indicated that she was getting only what was long due her, and that she had known all along no colt would beat her in the Kentucky Derby.
Perhaps she had known. Alec and Henry wouldn't have been surprised. She was that kind of girl.”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion's Filly