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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] 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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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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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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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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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
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On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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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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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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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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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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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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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives 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. 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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