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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Thanksgiving
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Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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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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On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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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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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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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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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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