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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.

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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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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