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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?

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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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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God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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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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Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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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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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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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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