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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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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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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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The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.
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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] 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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God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.
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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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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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Manna today or I starve.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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