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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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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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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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What is time for if not to bless?
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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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.
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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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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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I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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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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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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