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
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).
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.