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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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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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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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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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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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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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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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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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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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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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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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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
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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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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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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.
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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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