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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?
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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?
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It's impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – 'makes everything work out according to his plan.' (Ephesians 1:11).
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There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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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.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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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.
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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.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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?
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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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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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The secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God?
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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.
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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.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Ann Voskamp
Born:
August 10, 1973
(age 50)
Bio:
Ann Voskamp is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, published by Zondervan.
Known for:
One Thousand Gifts (2011)
The Greatest Gift (2013)
A Child's Geography: Explore His Earth (2008)
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