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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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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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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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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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Manna today or I starve.
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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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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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