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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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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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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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Hurry always empties a soul.
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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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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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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.
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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] 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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[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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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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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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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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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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