When I realize that it is not God who is in my debt but I who am in His great debt, then doesn’t all become gift?
Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts
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A lifetime of sermons on “thanks in all things” and the shelves sagging with books on these things and I testify: life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts
Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts
Is that why the Israelites kept recounting their past – to trust God for their future? Remembering is an act of thanksgiving, a way of thanksgiving, this turn of the heart over time’s shoulder to see all the long way His arms have carried… but gratitude is not only the memories of our heart; gratitude is a memory of God’s heart and to thank is to remember God.
Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts
In memory, the shape of God’s yesterday-heart emerges and assures of God’s now-heart and reassures of His sure beat tomorrow. And for the first time, I see why the Israelites are covenanted with God to be a people who remember with thanks. It is thanksgiving that shapes a theology of trust and the Israelites bear witness and I see.