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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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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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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] 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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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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Hurry always empties a soul.
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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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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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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