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
fighting feelings way
The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
thanksgiving might way
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
eye way praying
Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
stress joy way
Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
care way disadvantages
The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
gratitude choices way
Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
life giving way-to-live
There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
thanksgiving missing way-to-live
The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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.
gratitude fall garden
Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.
children grateful men
I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven." Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
gratitude stress giving
Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
jesus grateful writing
Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25%. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?