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All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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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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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
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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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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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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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