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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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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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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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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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