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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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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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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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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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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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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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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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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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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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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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