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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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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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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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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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