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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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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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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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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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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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