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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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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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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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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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God is good and I am always loved.
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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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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] 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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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.
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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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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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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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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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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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