Ann Voskamp

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http://www.aholyexperience.com/

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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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Because Hard Days are White Horse Days

When that window shattered into 7 billion pieces, a sliver stuck my heart and maybe a sliver is all we ever have?

It wasn’t so much that our farm boy had turned the tractor too sharp.

It wasn’t that he’d backed the tractor into the auger of the wagon hitched behind him.

It wasn’t even so much that the steel auger had slammed into the full window of the tractor — exploding the glass into a torrent...

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Books by Ann Voskamp

Average rating: 4.15 · 4,120 ratings · 676 reviews · 3 distinct works

	One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are 4.14 avg rating — 4,074 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Selections from One Thousand Gifts: Finding Joy in What Really Matters 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	A Child's Geography: Explore the Holy Land: Volume II [With CDROM] 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Ann Voskamp

“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

tags: beauty , daily , die , life , live , moment , sleep , suffering , ugly

29 people liked it

“The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.”
― Ann Voskamp

23 people liked it

“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

tags: faith

23 people liked it

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