WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of

by Ann Voskamp

stop comparing where we are compared to everyone else. I stop living like I have no agency. I stop living without boundaries. I stop thinking I deserve more than I simply need to serve. I stop turning and curling and curving and cling-trusting to anything but God.

reaching outward, by caring and curving toward other people’s needs because the way to happiness is always to bless and bless and bless. I start to live it in every way: The

It takes time, but change can take hold—if we let God hold us. Change happens when identity changes and our identity is attached to whom we are attached, and how they see us, treat us, act toward us. Our God is the God who stays with us, exactly so we can see ourselves the way He sees us—beloved, cherished, wanted, chosen—because this is what changes our identity, and it’s changing our identity that changes the whole of life. Healthy attachment cures harmful addictions because when we attach our identity to already being loved, there is no more to need. Turn

Come home to Me, the One covenanted to suffer with you. There is nothing to fear. Only doxology, doxology, doxology.

with God. Like signs, we get to be waymarkers, pointing beyond ourselves to the WayMaker Himself. In the predawn blackness of our bedroom, before we wake Shiloh for the long drive to the big city and the OR lights and the surgeons waiting, Darryl slips his arms around me, bows his head, and we reach for God: God, give us the grace to embrace mysteries we don’t understand,

The only outcome that matters is that we come to Him. If death is the outcome, we still get to come to Him. If pain, or shame, or flames, or chains, or graves are the outcome, we still get to come to Him. True freedom is to be free of outcomes and come into Him.