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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?

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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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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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.
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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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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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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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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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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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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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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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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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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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