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.
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.
first-love leftovers firsts
God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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.
used accomplish gods-will
All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?
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.
grateful be-grateful joyful
Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
rushing bulls break
In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.