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

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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 life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.
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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.
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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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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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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?
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