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 giving firsts
Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
gratitude winning giving
Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
blessing seems
The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
doxology depravity
A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
running healing wounded
When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
heart two broken
The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
self shining joy
I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?
christian grace mountain
Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
piano practice want
I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
soul yardsticks picks
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
children impossible parenthood
Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
giving may ugly
God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
fall moon glasses
I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty worship, worship of Creator Beauty Himself. God is present in all moments, but I do not deify the wind in the pines, the snow falling on the hemlocks, the moon over harvested wheat. Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things . Nature is not God but God revealing the weight of Himself, all His glory, through the looking glass of nature.
strong stress believe
I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth reflecting back at me: Every time fear freezes and worry writhes, every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God? That I really don't believe? But if I'm grateful to the Bridge Builder for the crossing of a million strong bridges, thankful for a million faithful moments, my life speaks my beliefs and I trust Him again.