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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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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. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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