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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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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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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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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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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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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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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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