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
prayer worry action
Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
eye way praying
Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
distance mirrors long
God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
thinking ugly life-is
Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
might breathe breaths
Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
eye practice giving
The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
stress joy way
Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
children motherhood soul
Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
giving waiting forever
But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
soul stronger may
Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
soul stronger speak
Only speak words that make souls stronger.
first-love leftovers firsts
God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
moving miracle grace
The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
lions satan leashes
Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash