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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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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.
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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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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. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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