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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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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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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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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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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
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We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.
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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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Manna today or I starve.
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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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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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