Ann Voskamp





Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp's a farmer's wife, mama to 6 kids, & author of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are (Zondervan). Everyday, she takes the wild dare. Right in the midst of her own and gritty grace-filled life. When the kids and the washing machine sleep, she washes her real dirt down with words and The Word. Some of her words find themselves in an award-winning series for curious kids, A Childs Geography, of which all profits are donated to Compassion. Other words can be found at Laity Lodge's High Calling where she serves as a contributing editor and other words advocate for the poor as she is a blogger traveling with Compassion. The only words that really matter are the ones she lives. This convicts her. She has a ba...more


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Look… you get what we all get — a lifetime.


Just you or none of us ever get to know how long that will turn out to be.


So get to it. Because you woke up 18 this week.


You sat at the end of the table after barn chores, grinning like you were just getting stretched up for the starting blocks and the race of your life — and somewhere inside I felt this crossing of an invisible finish line, right thro...

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Average rating: 4.10 · 11,099 ratings · 1,466 reviews · 8 distinct works · Similar authors
One Thousand Gifts: A Dare ...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 10,964 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions
Selections from One Thousan...
4.51 of 5 stars 4.51 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2012
One thousand gifts devotion...
4.68 of 5 stars 4.68 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2012
A Child's Geography: Explor...
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
One Thousand Gifts Study Gu...
4.59 of 5 stars 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
A Childs Geography Explore ...
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
The Greatest Gift: A Daily ...
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2013
Un Millar de Obsequios: El ...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013
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“I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.”
Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.”
Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life...

God gives us time. And who has time for God?

Which makes no sense.”
Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

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