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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Joy
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Depths
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Dependent
Thanks
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Gratitude

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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 think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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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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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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Manna today or I starve.
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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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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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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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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
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