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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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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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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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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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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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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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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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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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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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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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