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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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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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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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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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