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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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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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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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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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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 busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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