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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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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 don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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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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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began 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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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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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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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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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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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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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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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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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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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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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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