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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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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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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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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began 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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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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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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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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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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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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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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