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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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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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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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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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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 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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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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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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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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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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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
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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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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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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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