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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Habits
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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