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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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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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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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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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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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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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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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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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Where ever you are be all there
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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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