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
grace shadow comfort
Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
inspirational grace holiness
... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...
pain heart two
Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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.
doors firsts steps
Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
purpose plans
God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
real yesterday giving
I don't really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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.
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.
real real-joy joy
Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
prayer reading oatmeal
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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.
blessed fall rain
I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
gratitude life-changing grateful
Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.