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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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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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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.
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On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
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That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
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Where ever you are be all there
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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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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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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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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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