I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“The family tree of Christ startlingly notes not one woman but four. Four broken women —women who felt like outsiders, like has-beens, like… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“How long does it take for your soul to recognize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“For forty long years, God's people daily eat manna - a substance whose name literally mans 'What is it?' Hungry, they choose to gather up that which is baffling. They fill on that which has no meaning, More than 14,600 days that take their daily nourishment from that which they don't comprehend. They find soul-filling in the inexplicable. They eat… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“And the saddest of all may be when we give away our lives to insignificant things, things we didn’t realize we subconsciously loved. Turns… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude .” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world? — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
