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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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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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[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.
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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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A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.
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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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Manna today or I starve.
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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Where ever you are be all there
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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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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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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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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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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