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

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?
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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
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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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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God.
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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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