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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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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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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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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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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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