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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?

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
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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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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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