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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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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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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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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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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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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God.
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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.
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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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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.
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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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