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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.

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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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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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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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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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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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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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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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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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
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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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