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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

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
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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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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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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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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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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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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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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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