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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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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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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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