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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?

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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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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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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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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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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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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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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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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Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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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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