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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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Give
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Thanks
Gratitude
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Joy
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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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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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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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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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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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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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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 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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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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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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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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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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