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
blessing bridges
Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
regret worry live-in-the-present
Wherever you are, be all there." I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
rooms littles source
The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
perseverance rain clouds
If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
mirrors rearview-mirror
God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
soul yardsticks picks
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
christian hands giving
Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
loss sight black
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.
thanksgiving gratitude darkness
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
garden stories
From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
thanksgiving believe causes
Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
want different stories
Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
gratitude hard-times matter
Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
attention weight moments
When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.