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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 grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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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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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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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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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.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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