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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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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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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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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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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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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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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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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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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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