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
loving-you soul honor
Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
glory christ knows
When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
prayer reading oatmeal
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
focus simplicity matter
Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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.
thank-god stories thanks
Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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.
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 might way
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
two doubt weapons
There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
blessing acting christ
A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.