Ann Voskamp - One Thousand Gifts (2011)

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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
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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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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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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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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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.

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