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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 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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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
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There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began 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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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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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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