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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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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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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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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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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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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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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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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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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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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
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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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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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