Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
And the earth under your feet, the rain over your face upturned, the stars spinning all around you in the brazen glory:… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“How long does it take for your soul to recognize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“For forty long years, God's people daily eat manna - a substance whose name literally mans 'What is it?' Hungry, they choose to gather… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“And the saddest of all may be when we give away our lives to insignificant things, things we didn’t realize we subconsciously loved. Turns… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude .” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world? — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image