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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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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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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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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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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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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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Thanksgiving creates abundance and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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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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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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