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
world different natural
Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
pain giving world
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
filling-in world hunger
I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
mars world mark
Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
world lenses warp
Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
giving world needs
God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.
world moments speed
In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
giving-up needs world
You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
fall dark our-world
It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us...
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.