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
jesus acceptance crowds
We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.
thanksgiving gratitude joy
Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
blood answers body
I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
want different stories
Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
real lying believe
He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).
filling-in world hunger
I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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?
communication soul poor
Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
mirrors rearview-mirror
God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
fall giving ungrateful
Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
perseverance rain clouds
If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
ungrateful humanity firsts
Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
giving impossible thanks
It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
grief light work-out
Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).