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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.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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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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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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