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Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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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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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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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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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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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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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
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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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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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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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