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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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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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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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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?
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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