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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Writer
Function
Perspective
Joy
Always
Autism
Gratitude

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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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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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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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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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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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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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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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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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