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
fall expectations bears
Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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.
hands feet forever
God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
believe believe-in-god
We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
joy suffering rescue
Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
world different natural
Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
dream loss joy
How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
thanksgiving miracle
Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
believe air worry
Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
paris making-love
I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
giving making-love skins
God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? "To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
pain giving world
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
falling-in-love fall love-always
Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
heart focus mind
When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.