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Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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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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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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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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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.
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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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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
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The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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