“Jesus embraced His not enough ... He gives thanks ... and there is more than enough. More than enough. Eucharisteo always precedes… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“For years of mornings, I have woken wanting to die. Life itself twists into nightmare. For years, I have pulled the covers… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Loving broken people when it is inconvenient is the way to have fuller inclusion in the life of Christ. Teach” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Calm. Haste makes waste. Life is not an emergency. Life is brief and it is fleeting but it is not an emergency.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Wherever you are, be all there” is only possible in the posture of eucharisteo. I want to slow down and taste life,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“The joy of small that makes life large. Hadn't I personally experienced it before too, that vantage point that gave a sense… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“This. I live in this place, make porridge, scrub toilets, do laundry, and for days, weeks, I am brave and I do… — 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
“Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard. — 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… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
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
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