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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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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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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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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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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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Where ever you are be all there
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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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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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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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. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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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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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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