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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.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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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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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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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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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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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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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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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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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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