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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Joy
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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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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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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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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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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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 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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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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