Ann Voskamp - One Thousand Gifts (2011)

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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.

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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.

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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?

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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

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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.

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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.

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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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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

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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.

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Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.

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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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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

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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.

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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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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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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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