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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Miracle
Always
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Thanksgiving

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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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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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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
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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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I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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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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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? 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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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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