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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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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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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.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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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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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).
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A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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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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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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