Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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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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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.
Ann VoskampFrom all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
Ann VoskampThis day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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