Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskampis the author of the New York Times Bestseller, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, published by Zondervan...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 August 1973
CountryCanada
gratitude choices way
Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
thanksgiving running song
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.
long soul doe
How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
thank-god stories thanks
Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
moving eye experts
I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
father heart ears
Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
parenthood mothering hardest
No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
wall sleep dark
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks? The sages and prophets, the disciples and revolutionaries, they are the ones up on the ramparts, up on the wall pointing to the dawn of the new Kingdom coming, pointing to the light that breaks through all things broken, pointing to redemption always rising and to the Blazing God who never sleeps.
soul stronger may
Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
eye way praying
Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
bows moments ifs
Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
sleep suffering ugly
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
thanksgiving gratitude grows
And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
thanksgiving might way
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.