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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Lion
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Satan

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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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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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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.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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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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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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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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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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Manna today or I starve.
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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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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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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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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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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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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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