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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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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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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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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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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.
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