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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
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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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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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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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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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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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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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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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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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