"A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus." — Ann Voskamp

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A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

- Ann Voskamp

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I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.

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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer 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.

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

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Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people - there are only God-made souls.

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A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.