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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Bulls
Rushing
Shops
China
Break
Lives

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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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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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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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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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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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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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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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