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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.

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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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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What is time for if not to bless?
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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