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
empty fast patient writer
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.
bore boring deep heart hole romantics
The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.
I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.
arrive christmas kids perform produce tempted weary
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
bestowed edit god mine
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.
life
Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
romantics
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.
counting discovered god thousand
Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
scales truth
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
kids lay life man proposes romantic
Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.
people rank sticks worse
Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people - there are only God-made souls.
eden failure ultimately
I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.
christmas
A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.