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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).
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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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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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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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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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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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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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What is time for if not to bless?
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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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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