Ann Voskamp Quotes about Thanksgiving

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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

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.

Ann Voskamp

Thanksgiving, Running, Song

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Ann Voskamp

Thanksgiving, Miracle

Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.35, Zondervan

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.

Ann Voskamp

Thanksgiving, Missing, Add

FaceBook post by Ann Voskamp from Feb 28, 2014