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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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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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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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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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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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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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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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