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
bore boring deep heart hole romantics
The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
empty fast patient writer
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.
beats comparison somebody
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.
grown life numb simply taken weary
By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.
ate bread drank eat family food husband left living morning prayer sat scripture table until
My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.
eden failure ultimately
I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.
scales truth
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
first-love leftovers firsts
God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
brushes counting leaving-me
In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
arms matter undone
What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
swallowing complacency bears
Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
mars world mark
Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
filling-in world hunger
I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
what-if his-love causes
What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?