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What is time for if not to bless?

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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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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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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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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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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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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[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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The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. 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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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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