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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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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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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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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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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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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’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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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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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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I began [blogging] 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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Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
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God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
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Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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