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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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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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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. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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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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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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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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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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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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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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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day nothing catches Him off guard.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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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.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
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