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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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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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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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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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Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
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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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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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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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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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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
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God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.
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