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
thug joy soul
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
joy suffering rescue
Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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 gratitude joy
Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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?
blessing water joy
Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
joy fullness
Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
giving joy thanks
God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
lying joy grace
Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
fighting joy battle
The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
joy remembered
You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
stress joy way
Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
rain broken joy
When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
grateful be-grateful joyful
Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.