“By believing against all odds and loving against all odds, that is how we are to let Jesus show in the world and to transform the world.”- Frederick Buechner “Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.”- Pierre Teilhard […]
After a rain of tears, there is always more of you than before. Rain always brings growth.”- Ann Voskamp In Chapter 11 (“Breaking into Being Real”) of The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp compares the past, present, and future. She shares the following three observations: the past– a memory sealed right into you tomorrow– a mystery […]
“Pick up your cross. It’s the only way you or anyone else can know a resurrection.”- Ann Voskamp Ann Voskamp complete Chapter 10 of The Broken Way by stating that suffering’s present around every corner. Furthermore, suffering lurks in every act of love. As a result, in order to bear love out into the world, […]
“Fight back the dark with doxology. . . . doxology can detox the day.”- Ann Voskamp In Chapter 10 (“How to Passionately Love When Your Heart’s Breaking”) of The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp observes there’s nothing quite as terrifying as being forgotten. Therefore, Ann states, in such situations, try to “curl comfort around the angst” […]
“Leave your worries with God . . . or your worries will make you leave God.”- Ann Voskamp “There are very few men who realize what God would make of them if they abandoned themselves into His hands and let themselves be formed by His grace.”- Saint Ignatius Ann Voskamp writes in Chapter 9 (The […]
“Our loves are formed by our daily liturgies.”- Ann Voskamp “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.”- C. S. Lewis In Chapter 8 (“Why Love is Worth Breaking Your Heart”) of The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp provides the sole way to rise to […]
“Real love dares you to the really dangerous: die in the diminutive.”- Ann Voskamp “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.”- 1 John 3:16 (NIV) As Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 7 of The […]
“Real love is a roof. . . . If I can learn to receive, can I become love that breaks itself open, that pours itself out, and that becomes a roof over another?”- Ann Voskamp “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”- 1 Corinthians 13:7 Ann Voskamp continues Chapter […]
“Letting yourself be loved is an act of terrifying vulnerability and surrender.” – Ann Voskamp In Chapter 7 (“Love Is a Roof for All Our Brokenness”) of The Broken Way, Ann asks why we find it so hard to receive love. It seems easier to pour out love to others than accept love poured out […]
“What if the deeply satisfying life was found in the givenness of sacrifice — to something of significance — through the spirit?”- Ann Voskamp As Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 6 of The Broken Way, she stresses the futility of depending on circumstances. She notes: “No change in circumstances can change your life like meaning and […]
“Look, the whole lot of us are done with waiting room theology. We are done waiting for some elusive future moment to say life is good enough. . . . some big, exciting enough experience to finally think we’ve arrived at the abundance of being and living enough.”- Ann Voskamp Ann Voskamp continues Chapter 6 […]
“Cruciform self-giving is the distinctive dimension of holiness.”- Michael Gorman “A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out.”- Isaiah 42:3 In Chapter 6 (“What’s Even Better than a Bucket List”) of The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp confesses her daily need to re-member koinonia. That daily process enables […]