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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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The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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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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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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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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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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