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

by Ann Voskamp

Suffering doesn’t mean you’re cursed; suffering means you’re human. The question isn’t “Why is there suffering in my life?” but “Why wouldn’t there be suffering?” Because such is life in a broken world. The question is “What way will you bear your suffering?”

Expectations can slay any relationship, especially with God.

It’s never about the storm—it’s always about your sail.

All feelings are not facts, but all emotion is the language of the soul’s motion, the language of the pilgrim, the language of the soul’s movement toward God. God, though, these feelings feel like I’m dying inside.

It can look like we are lost on the way—but if we are with Someone who loves us, we are never lost.

Lament can be tears that water new life, if you let it come.

What we’re all looking for is a way to look into the eyes of One who is always looking for us, and there is only One.* And the dark night over us spins with embers of light, like the eyes of God dance when He looks into ours, takes us in arms, and we sway, swept into the oneness of the Great God Dance.

Where we forget ourselves—we find exactly what we are looking for: joy.

Prayer isn’t giving God information to act upon but God giving us intimacy to rest in. What undergirds every single prayer is the reality that we are held by our Father.

God didn’t give Abraham a map; He gave Abraham a relationship. Why would God give a map when He can give Himself? We need the person of God more than we need the plan for our lives.

Life is waves. Grief comes in waves. Suffering comes in waves. Losses come in waves. There is no controlling life’s storms; there is only learning to live with waves. The real work of being human is mastering how to process losses while being in the process of moving forward. The real work of being human is trusting the way is the waves, right through the valleys and crests. Across the waves, even now, right now, the Spirit hovers.