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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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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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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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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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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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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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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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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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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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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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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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