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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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Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.
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They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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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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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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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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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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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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