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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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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.
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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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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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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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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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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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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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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.
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