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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began 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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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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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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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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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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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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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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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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