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121 " 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 , One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
122 " At the grave's precipice, our feet scuff dirt, and chunks of the firmament fall away. "
123 " And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me. "
124 " The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire. "
― Ann Voskamp
125 " I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives. "
126 " ...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change. "
127 " 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. "
128 " As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible. "
129 " Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is. "
130 " God is good and I am always loved. "
131 " The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. 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. "
132 " 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. "
133 " All fear is but the notion that God's love ends. "
134 " Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. "
― Ann Voskamp , The Greatest Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas
135 " 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. "
136 " Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe. "
137 " Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more fulfilling in my daily life than Jesus' way? WHy else get angry? Isn't it because I think complaining, exasperation, resentment will pound me up into the full life I really want? When I choose-and it is a choice-to crush joy with bitterness, am I not purposefully choosing to take the way of the Prince of Darkness? Choosing the angry way of Lucifer because I think it is more effective-more expedient-than giving thanks? "
138 " Who knows why God allows heartbreak, but the answer must be important enough because God allows His heart to break too. "
― Ann Voskamp , The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life
139 " The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God. "
140 " The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace. "