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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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Where ever you are be all there
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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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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
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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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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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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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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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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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