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The act of sacrificing thank offerings to God - even for the bread and cup of cost, for cancer and crucifixion - this prepares the way for God to show us His fullest salvation from bitter, angry, resentful lives and from all sin that -- Ann Voskamp
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A pantheist's god is a passive god, but omnipresent God is Beauty who demands worship, passion, and the sacrifice of a life, for He owns it. -- Ann Voskamp
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Eucharisteo makes the knees the vantage point of a life. -- Ann Voskamp
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Life is dessert - too brief to hurry ... "Where ever you are, be all there" is only possible with eucharisteo. Slow down and taste life, give thanks, and see God. Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus. Eucharisteo keeps the focus. Page 77 -- Ann Voskamp
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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced ... cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling. -- Ann Voskamp
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Lord God, I claim Christ as my bridge back to You and I trust the Bridge Builder to hold all the moments of my life - and me. Remind me today, Lord, to give thanks to You for always holding. I am relieved of the burdens when I've believed in the Bridge Builder. -- Ann Voskamp
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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything. -- Ann Voskamp
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Awe ignites joy because it makes us bend the knee. -- Ann Voskamp
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Where ever you are be all there -- Ann Voskamp
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The art of giving is believing there is enough love in you, that you are loved enough by Him, to be made enough love to give. For -- Ann Voskamp
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Lord God, Maker of all, when You give manna moments, may I give You thanks for the mystery. Because the manna that makes no sense - You will make it my sustenance. Today, in all the "what is it?" moments, turn me to give thanks for who You are. -- Ann Voskamp
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping. -- Ann Voskamp
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. -- Ann Voskamp
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Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal. -- Ann Voskamp
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How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. The converse does. (Page 58) -- Ann Voskamp
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To lack faith perhaps isn't as much an intellectual disbelief in the existence of God as fear and distrust that there is a good God. -- Ann Voskamp
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Work-worn, on a gingham towel draped over the cupboard. "All of them stillborn." I smother a sigh with a smile, weak and resigned. He takes it regardless. "Yeah ... " He too smiles soft, a hand letting -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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The one who lives her life in circles, discovering, entering into, forgetting and losing, finding her way round again, living her life in layers
deeper, round, further in. I know 'eucharisteo' and the miracle. But I am not a woman who ever lives the full knowing. -- Ann Voskamp
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What she means? Sure, whatever. It's not like I thought that this is the carving, the flying, the healing of my wounds. Sometimes you don't know when you're -- Ann Voskamp
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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose. -- Ann Voskamp
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I didn't start with any specific steps, but through this intentional, daily practice of giving thanks, I found myself on a transformative journey that affected every aspect of my life - including all the broken places. -- Ann Voskamp
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me. -- Ann Voskamp
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Loving broken people when it is inconvenient is the way to have fuller inclusion in the life of Christ. Teach -- Ann Voskamp
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God. -- Ann Voskamp
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The answer to anxiety is always to exalt Christ. -- Ann Voskamp
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Counting one thousand gifts means counting the hard things - otherwise I've miscounted. -- Ann Voskamp
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I speak it to God: I don't really want more time; I just want enough time, time to do my one life well. -- Ann Voskamp
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world's a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah. -- Ann Voskamp
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Lord, You are the only lens that can correct the vision of a life. And if I don't hunger daily for the bread of Your Word, I'll develop sight deficiency. Make me Word reflective - that I may have the right perspective. -- Ann Voskamp
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story. -- Ann Voskamp
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The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible. -- Ann Voskamp
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You may believe in God, but never forget - it's God who believes in you. Every morning that the sun rises and you get to rise? That's God saying He believes in you, that He believes in the story He's writing through you. He believes in you as a gift the world needs. -- Ann Voskamp
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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? -- Ann Voskamp
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But, someone, please give me - who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew - give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins? -- Ann Voskamp
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Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family. -- Ann Voskamp
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven
that kind of distance. -- Ann Voskamp
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Wherever you are, be all there is only possible in the posture of eucharisteo. I want to slow down and taste life, give thanks, and see God. -- Ann Voskamp
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of nightmares to reach, to seize. Joy. But where can I seize this holy grail of joy? I look back down to the page. Was this the clue to the quest of all most important? Deep chara joy is found only at the table of the euCHARisteo - the table of thanksgiving. -- Ann Voskamp
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Only the Word is the answer to rightly reading the world, because The Word has nail-scarred hands that cup our face close, wipe away the tears running down, has eyes to look deep into our brimming ache, and whisper, I know. I know. -- Ann Voskamp
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Eucharisteo has taught me to trust that there is always enough God. He has no end. -- Ann Voskamp
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Why do I lunge for control instead of joy? ... do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life ... Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care? P 130 -- Ann Voskamp
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Eucharisteo is giving thanks for grace. But in the breaking and giving of bread, in the washing of feet, Jesus makes it clear that eucharisteo is, yes, more: it is giving grace away. -- Ann Voskamp
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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives. -- Ann Voskamp
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Irenaeus, very disciple of the apostle John, wrote: "The glory of God is the human being fully alive and the life of the human consists in beholding God" (emphasis added). -- Ann Voskamp
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A day is a pocket of possibility and it's always there, waiting for your willing hand. -- Ann Voskamp
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In the original language, "he gave thanks" reads "eucharisteo." ... The root word for eucharisteo is charis, meaning "grace." Jesus took bread and saw it as grace and gave thanks. He took the bread and knew it to be gift and gave thanks. -- Ann Voskamp
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He means to rename us
to return us to our true names, our truest selves. He means to heal our soul holes. From the very beginning, that Eden beginning, that has always been and always is, to this day, His secret purpose
our return to 'our full glory'. -- Ann Voskamp
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To get where you want to go, the first question you always have to answer is Where am I? ... We only find out where we are when we find out where He is. We only find ourselves ... when we find Him. -- Ann Voskamp
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Start with a simple request, making it the refrain of your day: 'God, open the eyes of my heart.' This journey must be Spirit-led, every day. -- Ann Voskamp
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Manna today or I starve. -- Ann Voskamp
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That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave. -- Ann Voskamp
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Every religion, every program, every self-help book is about steps you have to take. Jesus is the only One who becomes the step - to take you. -- Ann Voskamp
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All new life labors out of the very bowels of darkness. -- Ann Voskamp
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Maybe it's okay to not feel strong, to carry an unspoken broken. And . . . to speak it? -- Ann Voskamp
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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer. -- Ann Voskamp
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Trust is the bridge from yesterday to tomorrow, built with planks of thanks. -- Ann Voskamp
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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity. -- Ann Voskamp
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The secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is. -- Ann Voskamp
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They say memory jolts awake with trauma's electricity. -- Ann Voskamp
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When the church isn't for the suffering and broken, then the church isn't for Christ. Because Jesus, with His pierced side, is always on the side of the broken. -- Ann Voskamp
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Looking is the love. Looking is evidence of the believing. -- Ann Voskamp
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness ... -- Ann Voskamp
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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven." Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait. -- Ann Voskamp
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But in all His relationships, God reaches for man. Reaches for you who have fallen and scraped your heart raw, for you who feel the shame of words that have snaked off your tongue and poisoned corners of your life, for you who keep trying to cover up pain with perfectionism. -- Ann Voskamp
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God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace. -- Ann Voskamp
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Sometimes you don't know when you're taking the first step through a door until you're already inside. -- Ann Voskamp
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Who knows why God allows heartbreak, but the answer must be important enough because God allows His heart to break too. -- Ann Voskamp
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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. -- Ann Voskamp
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This. I live in this place, make porridge, scrub toilets, do laundry, and for days, weeks, I am brave and I do get out of bed and I think on this. I study this, the full life, the being fully ready for the end. I start to think that maybe there is a way out of nightmares to dreams? Maybe? -- Ann Voskamp
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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live ... . He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything. -- Ann Voskamp
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The highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God ... God only desires that our soul cling to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness. -- Ann Voskamp
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us. -- Ann Voskamp
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A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus. -- Ann Voskamp
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life? -- Ann Voskamp
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Isn't joy worth the effort of trust? -- Ann Voskamp
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain ... again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved. -- Ann Voskamp
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My own wild desire to protect my joy at all costs is the exact force that kills my joy. Flames need oxygen to light, Flames need a bit of wind. -- Ann Voskamp
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If I am truly in Christ, mustn't my initial act, too, always be an act of thanksgiving, returning to Jesus with thanks on the lips? -- Ann Voskamp
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to give thanks is an action and rejoice is a verb and these are not mere pulsing emotions. While I may not always feel joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things, because He knows that the feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving.4 -- Ann Voskamp
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Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned. -- Ann Voskamp
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God? -- Ann Voskamp
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker. -- Ann Voskamp
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse? -- Ann Voskamp
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All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no. -- Ann Voskamp
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The whole earth is full of His glory. Sky, land, and sea, heavy and saturated with God
why do I always forget? -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'. -- Ann Voskamp
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives. -- Ann Voskamp
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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Life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change. -- Ann Voskamp
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He withhold that which I believe will fully nourish me? Why do I live in this sense of rejection, of less than, of pain? Does He not want me to be happy? -- Ann Voskamp
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This is the crux of Christianity: to remember and give thanks, 'eucharisteo'. -- Ann Voskamp
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God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives. -- Ann Voskamp
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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world? -- Ann Voskamp
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I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify. -- Ann Voskamp
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Slay the idol of the seen, break the idols of performance, and believe the state of my house doesn't reflect the state of my soul...it's the priorities unseen - the prayers, the relationships, the love while doing the work - that hold the meaning, the merit. -- Ann Voskamp
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While I may not always feel joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things because He knows that the feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving. -- Ann Voskamp
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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ. -- Ann Voskamp
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Emptiness itself can birth the fullness of grace beacuse in the emptiness we have the opportunity to turn to God, ... -- Ann Voskamp
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Relationships only get to exist as long as they keep breathing in the air of mutual forgiveness, and he and I have found an uncommon grace. Grace can strike when you are in great pain and light you with the greatest hope. I -- Ann Voskamp
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God is good and I am always loved. -- Ann Voskamp
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire. -- Ann Voskamp
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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy. -- Ann Voskamp
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The brave baring of all the broken in their brokenness can offer the miracle of communion. Never be afraid of being a broken thing. -- Ann Voskamp
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When the King rules your world, you cease to rule or worry. All worry dethrones God. All worrying makes you King and God incompetent. There is a King born in Bethlehem and on the throne. You can breathe. -- Ann Voskamp
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When the purity of Jesus lies over a heart, His transparency burns the cataracts off the soul. The only way to see God manifested in the world around is with the eyes of Jesus within. -- Ann Voskamp
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace. -- Ann Voskamp
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held. -- Ann Voskamp
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Count blessings and discover Who can be counted on. -- Ann Voskamp
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He did not abandon you in the ultimate storm of your soul. He will not abandon you in the immediate storm of your now. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope. ELYSE M. FITZPATRICK -- Ann Voskamp
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You only begin to change your life when you begin to change the way you see. -- Ann Voskamp
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear. -- Ann Voskamp
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Contemplative simplicity isn't a matter of circumstances; it's a matter of focus. -- Ann Voskamp
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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things -- Ann Voskamp
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I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. -- Ann Voskamp
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Entertaining the mind with trivial pretties when I haven't bowed the head and heart in a prayer longer than five minutes in a week. -- Ann Voskamp
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Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.
It means "full of grace". -- Ann Voskamp
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful. -- Ann Voskamp
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks. -- Ann Voskamp
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant. -- Ann Voskamp
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This counting blessings was the unlocking of the mystery of joy, joy, "the gigantic secret of the Christian," joy hiding in gratitude ... God had used the dare to give me this; led me all he way to give me this, live fully, fully live. Page 83 -- Ann Voskamp
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Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard. -- Ann Voskamp
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The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving. -- Ann Voskamp
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Lord God, You are the Hound of heaven who hunts the lost down and captures us with grace. Today, make me the hound of now who hunts for glory and captures joy with just that one word: Thanks. -- Ann Voskamp
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By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded ... and wounded. -- Ann Voskamp
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Are farmers and they keep trying to breathe, keep the body moving to keep the soul from atrophying. Mama cries when she strings -- Ann Voskamp
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You know it with startling clarity in that moment - how there's only a singular cord in this knotted mess of a world worth reaching for. It's dangling right there from our impossible tangle, and it's the one hope you need to reach for this Advent. That scarlet lifeline of Christ. -- Ann Voskamp
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God? -- Ann Voskamp
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The only place we have to come before we die is the place of seeing God. -- Ann Voskamp
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living. -- Ann Voskamp
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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love. -- Ann Voskamp
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Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. -- Ann Voskamp
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Daily discipline is the door to full freedom, and the discipline to count to one thousand gave way to the freedom of wonder and I can't imagine not staying awake to God in the moment, the joy in the now. -- Ann Voskamp
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Thanks is what multiplies the joy and makes any life large, and I hunger for it. -- Ann Voskamp
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a mothers labor and delivery never ends, and you just have to keep remembering to breathe -- Ann Voskamp
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips. -- Ann Voskamp
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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out? -- Ann Voskamp
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How do you open the eyes to see how to take the daily, domestic, workday vortex and invert it into the dome of an everyday cathedral? -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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Don't belittle everyday pots and pans - they are the means to carry theology into the everyday of our lives. -- Ann Voskamp
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective. -- Ann Voskamp
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God gives God. That is the gift God always ultimately gives. Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God. God gives God, and we only need to slow long enough to unwrap the greatest Gift with our time: time in His Word, time in His presence, time at His feet. -- Ann Voskamp
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I don't really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday. -- Ann Voskamp
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well. -- Ann Voskamp
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I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks. -- Ann Voskamp
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God's not out to get you - He's out to give to you. -- Ann Voskamp
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks ... and you win joy. -- Ann Voskamp
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Eucharisteo - thanksgiving - always precedes the miracle. -- Ann Voskamp
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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world. -- Ann Voskamp
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Why have we swallowed the lie that we can only help if we're perfect? The cosmic truth sealed in the wounds of the broken God is that the greatest brokers of abundance know an unspoken broken. Wrapping -- Ann Voskamp
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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart. -- Ann Voskamp
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Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens. -- Ann Voskamp
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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough? -- Ann Voskamp
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Just that maybe ... maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds. -- Ann Voskamp
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Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough. -- Ann Voskamp
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Take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform it into a joy that fulfills all emptiness. -- Ann Voskamp
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Grace - that is what the full life is full of, what the God-glory is full of. -- Ann Voskamp
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Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people - there are only God-made souls. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us? -- Ann Voskamp
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Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God. -- Ann Voskamp
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The weight of God's glory, not illusory or ephemeral, but daily and everywhere, punctures earth's lid and heaven falls through the holes. -- Ann Voskamp
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What is time for if not to bless? -- Ann Voskamp
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I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus. -- Ann Voskamp
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment.
I hunger to taste life.
God. -- Ann Voskamp
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All is grace only because all can transfigure. -- Ann Voskamp
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Generosity does give birth to intimacy - but there's a far deeper intimacy when we're generous in sharing our brokenness. -- Ann Voskamp
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We want clarity
and God gives a call. We want a road map
and God gives a relationship. We want answers
and God gives His hand. -- Ann Voskamp
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More important than a clean house is a close family. -- Ann Voskamp
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God. -- Ann Voskamp
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn't: holes, lack, deficiency. -- Ann Voskamp
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The practice of giving thanks ... eucharisteo ... this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see. -- Ann Voskamp
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To receive God's gifts, to live exalted and joy filled, isn't a function of straining higher, harder, doing more, carrying long the burdens of the super-Pharisees or ultra-saints. Receiving God's gifts is a gentle, simple movement of stooping lower. -- Ann Voskamp
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith. -- Ann Voskamp
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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve. -- Ann Voskamp
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He means to heal our soul holes. -- Ann Voskamp
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When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists. -- Ann Voskamp
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When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He won't let us fall apart. -- Ann Voskamp
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Great faith is the greatest equalizer, the greatest eraser, and the greatest definer. -- Ann Voskamp
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing. -- Ann Voskamp
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart. -- Ann Voskamp
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest. -- Ann Voskamp
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks? -- Ann Voskamp
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with. -- Ann Voskamp
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Life is dessert - too brief to hurry. -- Ann Voskamp
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I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists. -- Ann Voskamp
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love. -- Ann Voskamp
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even when life abandons you, you are in the arms of God. I -- Ann Voskamp
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I'll take it. I'll take his words like a daring covenant, not knowing yet what's to come: there is no growth without change, no change without surrender, no surrender without wound - no abundance without breaking. Wounds are what break open the soul to plant the seeds of a deeper growth. -- Ann Voskamp
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God's purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is. -- Ann Voskamp
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy. -- Ann Voskamp
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I redeem time from neglect and apathy and inattentiveness when I swell with thanks and weigh the moment down and it's giving thanks to God for this moment that multiplies the moments, time made enough. I am thank-full. I am time-full. -- Ann Voskamp
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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano. -- Ann Voskamp
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Real Womanhood isn't a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father. -- Ann Voskamp
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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone. -- Ann Voskamp
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Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive. -- Ann Voskamp
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will. -- Ann Voskamp
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant - a seed - this plants the giant miracle. -- Ann Voskamp
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The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs. -- Ann Voskamp
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The wonder of all this - God looks at you at your lowest and loves you all the way up to the sky. -- Ann Voskamp
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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ. -- Ann Voskamp
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You will b experienced as a blessing
to the extent you have fist experienced yourself as blessed. You must feel the fullness of your own pitcher before you trust the pouring out of yourself. -- Ann Voskamp
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Could it be - no one receives the peace of God without giving thanks to God? Is thankfulness really but the deep, contented breath of peacefulness? Is this why God asks us to give thanks even when things look a failure? When there doesn't seem much to give thanks for? -- Ann Voskamp
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Instead of filling with expectations, the joy-filled expect nothing
and are filled. -- Ann Voskamp
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How to 'live' in a state of awe when life is mundane and ordinary? -- Ann Voskamp
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If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough. -- Ann Voskamp
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I am bell and He is sure wind, and He moves and I am rung ... -- Ann Voskamp
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible. -- Ann Voskamp
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I wear the lens of the Word and all the world transfigures into the Beauty of Christ and 'everything is eucharisteo'. -- Ann Voskamp
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If the heights of our joy are measured by the depths of our gratitude, and gratitude is but a way of seeing, a spiritual perspective of smallness might offer a vital way of seeing especially conducive to gratitude -- Ann Voskamp
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Time, what God first deemed holy above all else (Genesis 2:3). Thank God for the time, and very God enters that time, presence hallowing it ... I awake to I AM here. When I'm present, I meet I AM, the very presence of a present God. (page 70) -- Ann Voskamp
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For years, I tried medication, blade, work, escape, all attempts to drown out that incessant, reverberating drum of self-rejection. -- Ann Voskamp
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I can see it in the looking back, how this daily practice of the discipline of gratitude is the way to daily practice the delight of God ... -- Ann Voskamp
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity. -- Ann Voskamp
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larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it. -- Ann Voskamp
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Only speak words that make souls stronger. -- Ann Voskamp
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Love is ridiculous and reconfigures everything. -- Ann Voskamp
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There is this: We give thanks to God not because of how we feel but because of who He is. -- Ann Voskamp
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God wants us to lament. Complaint doesn't see the goodness of the character of God. Lament is authentic about the feelings but knows the goodness and benevolence of God. -- Ann Voskamp
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I stop the spinning thoughts, the probing questions, the hands sorting, the laundry work, because God needs knees more than hands. -- Ann Voskamp
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep. -- Ann Voskamp
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The cure against the bite of thanklessness. The remedy is in the retina. How we behold determines if we hold joy. Behold glory and be held by God. -- Ann Voskamp
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While other creeds endeavor to get us out of the world and into heaven, in Christianity, heaven comes down and Christ comes into this world to get us. To suffer with us. We find favor - only because Christ feels pain. -- Ann Voskamp
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It is no use for you to attempt to sow out of an empty basket, for that would be sowing nothing but wind, wrote Spurgeon. -- Ann Voskamp
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough. -- Ann Voskamp
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But the Lord draws near to Samuel: The LORD doesn't see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. -- Ann Voskamp
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love. -- Ann Voskamp
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Unless we speak praise, we consistently speak poison. Unless we are intentional about giving God glory throughout the day, our days unintentionally give way to grumbling. -- Ann Voskamp
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life. -- Ann Voskamp
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Communion, by necessity, always leads us into community. -- Ann Voskamp
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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God ... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs (Zephaniah 3:17). He sings love! In the air, over -- Ann Voskamp
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As G. K. Chesterton wrote, "How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it."22 -- Ann Voskamp
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He's splashing through ancient water, water from the beginning that has cycled through all centuries, puddle-jumped by a thousand young boys through the ages and I wonder if the water Adam knew falls here. -- Ann Voskamp
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems. -- Ann Voskamp
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing. -- Ann Voskamp
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Prayer without ceasing is only possible in a life of continual thanks. -- Ann Voskamp
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When I'm present, I meet I AM, the very presence of a present God. In His embrace, time loses all sense of speed and stress and space and stands so still and ... holy. Here is the only place I can love Him. -- Ann Voskamp
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Simplicity is not a matter of circumstance; it is a matter of focus. -- Ann Voskamp
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And it's the 'Word of God' that turns the rocks in the mouth to loaves on the tongue. That fills our emptiness with the true and real good, 'that makes the eyes see', the body full of light. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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God is always good and we are always loved ... even when what He gives may appear ugly. -- Ann Voskamp
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story. -- Ann Voskamp
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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution? -- Ann Voskamp
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War destroys more than cities - it destroys generations of dreams and hopes and education and possibility. -- Ann Voskamp
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You may suffer loss but in Me is anything ever lost, really? Isn't everything that belongs to Christ also yours? -- Ann Voskamp
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Satan prowls but he's a lion on a leash -- Ann Voskamp
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The sun climbs the horizon. I throw back the covers, take another breath, and begin. I get to. I get to live. -- Ann Voskamp
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If you haven't lost Christ, child, nothing is ever lost. -- Ann Voskamp
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He is perfect love and His perfect love kicks fear to the curb. -- Ann Voskamp
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Love is not blind; love is the holy vision. -- Ann Voskamp
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The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. -- Ann Voskamp
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul. -- Ann Voskamp
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I'm Peter on the mountaintop, stirring to see The Glory in all its God-radiance, stammering out that it's good to be here; let's build shelters and never depart. But there's always the descent from the mount. The meeting of the crowd, the complaining, the cursing. Page 124 -- Ann Voskamp
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart. -- Ann Voskamp
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ. -- Ann Voskamp
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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God. -- Ann Voskamp
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Great thinkers are the grateful thankers - the real greats live gratefully. -- Ann Voskamp
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I am blessed. I can bless. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren't commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget. -- Ann Voskamp
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He must increase and I must decrease
not because that is burden but do that my joy might increase with more of Him! -- Ann Voskamp
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe. -- Ann Voskamp
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest. -- Ann Voskamp
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier. -- Ann Voskamp
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child. -- Ann Voskamp
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow. -- Ann Voskamp
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Faith is in the gaze of a soul. -- Ann Voskamp
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends. -- Ann Voskamp
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Is that why joy hurts
God stretching us open to receive more of Himself? -- Ann Voskamp
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Hurry always empties a soul. -- Ann Voskamp
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It's the battle plan of the enemy of the soul - to keep us blind to this current moment, the one we can't control, to keep us blind to Him, the One who controls everything. -- Ann Voskamp
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Thanks makes now a sanctuary. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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I do what I always need to do. I preach it. I preach it to the person I need to preach to the most. I preach to me. -- Ann Voskamp
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God. -- Ann Voskamp
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling. -- Ann Voskamp
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Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall
discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied. -- Ann Voskamp
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True saints know that the place where all the joy comes from is far deeper than that of feelings; joy comes from the place of the very presence of God. Joy is God and God is joy and joy doesn't negate all other emotions - joy transcends all other emotions. -- Ann Voskamp
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Suffering is not a problem that needs a solution as much as it's an experience that needs compassion. Because -- Ann Voskamp
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God doesn't want to number your failures or count your accomplishments as much as He wants you to have an encounter with Him. -- Ann Voskamp
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When you have an overwhelmed world, you don't have to have an underwhelmed soul - if Christ fills the thoughts. -- Ann Voskamp
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can't bear to keep swallowing complacency. -- Ann Voskamp
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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. -- Ann Voskamp
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Realize that the real hidden cost of everything you buy- is how much life it cost you to get it. -- Ann Voskamp
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All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God? -- Ann Voskamp
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God. -- Ann Voskamp
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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness. -- Ann Voskamp
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Having Christian convictions can't ever negate having Christ's compassion. -- Ann Voskamp
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift
it is always meant to be given. -- Ann Voskamp
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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing. -- Ann Voskamp
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Please hear me, Girl: The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do hard and holy things. -- Ann Voskamp
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible. -- Ann Voskamp
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Thanksgiving creates abundance. -- Ann Voskamp
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God only allows pain if He's allowing something new to be born. -- Ann Voskamp
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Feel thanks and it is impossible to feel angry. We can only feel one emotion at time. We get to choose which do you was to feel? -- Ann Voskamp
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I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God. -- Ann Voskamp
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Wonder too ... if the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, our own emptiness, might actually become places to see. -- Ann Voskamp
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved. -- Ann Voskamp
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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies ... waters that have no life. -- Ann Voskamp
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go ... always for our good and always for His glory. -- Ann Voskamp
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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory. -- Ann Voskamp
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction. -- Ann Voskamp
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God holds us in the untamed moments too. -- Ann Voskamp
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus. -- Ann Voskamp
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God. -- Ann Voskamp
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If God didn't withhold from us His very own Son, will God withhold anything we need? -- Ann Voskamp
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The well is always here. God is always here - precisely because He does care. -- Ann Voskamp
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So slow down to feel the wind. Listen to the carols just a little bit longer. Linger in the quiet and taste the grace of now, and know that He is good and He is God. Name them in this moment - gift upon gift upon gift - and listen for the echo in everything: I will bless you. -- Ann Voskamp
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Expectations kill relationships - especially with God. -- Ann Voskamp
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Without expectations, what can topple the surprising wonder of the moment? -- Ann Voskamp
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced. -- Ann Voskamp
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He's inviting me to heal, but also to see my most meaningful calling: to be His healing to the hurting. My own brokenness, driving me into Christ's, is exactly where I can touch the brokenhearted. Our -- Ann Voskamp
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. -- Ann Voskamp
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found. -- Ann Voskamp
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Calm. Haste makes waste. Life is not an emergency. Life is brief and it is fleeting but it is not an emergency. -- Ann Voskamp
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life? -- Ann Voskamp
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It's impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear -- Ann Voskamp
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How long does it take for your soul to recognize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction. The body and soul can synchronize. page 76 -- Ann Voskamp
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God gives us time. And who has time for God? -- Ann Voskamp
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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time. -- Ann Voskamp
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The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace? -- Ann Voskamp
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life. -- Ann Voskamp
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is. -- Ann Voskamp
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son. -- Ann Voskamp
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I speak the unseen into seeing and I can feel it, this steady breathing in the rhythm of grace
'give thanks (in), give thanks (out)'. -- Ann Voskamp
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To live either fully alive ... or in empty nothingness? It's the in between that drives us mad. -- Ann Voskamp
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Thankfully, God never gives us what is deserved ... -- Ann Voskamp
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Thanksgiving is inherent to a true salvation experience; thanksgiving is necessary to live the well, whole, 'fullest' life. -- Ann Voskamp
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Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life. -- Ann Voskamp
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Christ at the end of a cross can upend whole worlds and everything lands aright. -- Ann Voskamp
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Without God's Word as a lens, the world warps. -- Ann Voskamp
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection. -- Ann Voskamp
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin. -- Ann Voskamp
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces. -- Ann Voskamp
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Sometimes God answers our questions with questions. -- Ann Voskamp
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Faith is in the gaze of a soul. Faith is seeing soul's eyes upon a saving God. -- Ann Voskamp
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God. -- Ann Voskamp
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I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process. -- Ann Voskamp
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath ... It's all a gift. -- Ann Voskamp
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Something always comes to fill the empty places. -- Ann Voskamp
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You, who were made by Love, made for love
be still and know and watch love come down. -- Ann Voskamp
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life -- Ann Voskamp
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In the endless cycle of grace, He gives us gifts to serve the world. -- Ann Voskamp
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Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic. -- Ann Voskamp
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You can have this as the best Christmas ever as much as you gaze into your Father's face and receive His gift. -- Ann Voskamp
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Only self can kill joy. -- Ann Voskamp
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Joy is always possible. Whenever, meaning - now; wherever, meaning - here. -- Ann Voskamp