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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Every
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Thanks
Gratitude
Battle
Joy
Winning
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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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God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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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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Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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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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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.
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Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day nothing catches Him off guard.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
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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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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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