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Manna today or I starve.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Manna
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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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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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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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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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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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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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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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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[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.
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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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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. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it 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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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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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 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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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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