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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Yielding
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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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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Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.
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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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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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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
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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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I began [blogging] 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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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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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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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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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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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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