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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
Ann Voskamp
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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
Ann Voskamp
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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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
Ann Voskamp
You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
Ann Voskamp
The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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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.
Ann Voskamp
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.
Ann Voskamp
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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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
Ann Voskamp
Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
Ann Voskamp
God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
Ann Voskamp
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.
Ann Voskamp
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.
Ann Voskamp
If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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