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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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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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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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I began [blogging] 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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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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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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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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