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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
Ann Voskamp
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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
Ann Voskamp
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.
Ann Voskamp
You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
Ann Voskamp
God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
Ann Voskamp
The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
Ann Voskamp
Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
Ann Voskamp
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.
Ann Voskamp
Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
Ann Voskamp
Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
Ann Voskamp
It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
Ann Voskamp
Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
Ann Voskamp
You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
Ann Voskamp
I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
Ann Voskamp
Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
Ann Voskamp
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.
Ann Voskamp
Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? 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.
Ann Voskamp
Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
Ann Voskamp
What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
Ann Voskamp
It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
Ann Voskamp
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.
Ann Voskamp