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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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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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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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