Just like you, Ann Voskamp hungers to live her one life well. Forget the bucket lists that have us escaping our everyday lives for exotic experiences. “How,” Ann wondered, “do we find joy in the midst of deadlines, debt, drama, and daily duties? What does the Christ-life really look like when your days are gritty, long — and sometimes even dark? How is God even here?”
In One Thousand Gifts, Ann … Thousand Gifts, Ann invites you to embrace everyday blessings and embark on the transformative spiritual discipline of chronicling God’s gifts. It’s only in this expressing of gratitude for the life we already have, we discover the life we’ve always wanted… a life we can take, give thanks for, and break for others. We come to feel and know the impossible right down in our bones: we are wildly loved — by God.
Let Ann’s beautiful, heart-aching stories of the everyday give you a way of seeing that opens your eyes to ordinary amazing grace, a way of being present to God that makes you deeply happy, and a way of living that is finally fully alive.
Come live the best dare of all!
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An insightful, heartwarming and motivational story of gratitude in every day life. The author counted her blessings and listed things she was grateful for and the list was more than 1000 long.
This is an awesome book! Ann Voskamp tells pictures with her words and is so descriptive! The idea of thinking of 3 things a day to be thankful for and how it can change your view of life is awesome! I highly recommend!
Read 2.13.2015
A year to read a book. Because I started this alone and then moved into a Bible Study with two other women, it took longer than it would have on my own. And then the women bailed on me and I was left to finish it alone. Which is too bad. I think they missed out on a chance to learn how to be truly grateful for EVERYTHING that comes …
In the midst of everything going on in 2020, it’s a good time to be reminded we can have gratitude not only in the ordinary, but amidst crisis and chaos, and Ann Voskamp does that well. This little power-packed book has been around for a few years, but it is absolutely a must read classic.
After all, Voskamp is a poet and a storyteller …
Ann’s words are honest and tender. She recognizes the beauty in life with gratitude and the pain of life with compassion and faith. I particularly appreciate her realistic assessment of the brokenness in our hearts and world; she doesn’t sugarcoat reality. She enables the reader to recognize and long for redemption and transformation. Her words …
When you early childhood causes you to face death and depression can you grow up and learn to be thankful for what you have.?? Can looking for positives in each day help you to find a happy and fulfilling life?? This author took the time to find 1000 gifts and logged them into a journal. This is the story of these gifts, what she learned from …
One of the best books ever
I actually read the devotional that was based on this book. So I read 2 or 3 pages at a time. I very much enjoyed it and she often drew from quotes of others to make her point. A lot of her personal stories centered around her life of raising children; so I suspect the book will appeal more to women than men. Particularly, if one is in the midst …
Ann Voskamp writes on her title page, ”A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”. This book is a gift you may read over and over feeling the passages and words as you list your thousand gifts. For those of us who have struggled with gratitude journals or cannot journal regularly this joyful acknowledgment of faith, love, and thankfulness will …