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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Emptying
Fullness
Discovered
Joy

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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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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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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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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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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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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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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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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.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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Manna today or I starve.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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