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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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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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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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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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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?
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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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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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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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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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