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Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day nothing catches Him off guard.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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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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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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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. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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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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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
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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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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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Manna today or I starve.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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