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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Intimacy
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Heaven
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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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In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.
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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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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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Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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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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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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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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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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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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