“It takes great trust to believe in the smallest of beginnings.”- Ann Voskamp “If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.”- Isaiah 58:10 (ESV) Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 5 of The Broken Way […]
“And these acts of kindness, gifts of grace, they start a cascade of grace to fill a multitude of canyons in a hurting world.”- Ann Voskamp “Give away your life; you’ll find life given back, but not merely given back — given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way.”- John 6:38 […]
“The blessedness of possessing nothing can not be learned by rote as one would learn the facts of physical science. They must be experienced before we can really know them.”- A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (1948) Ann Voskamp continues Chapter 5 of The Broken Way by affirming that the very moment of our […]
“Learning the art of living is learning the art of giving.”- Ann Voskamp “Do you hesitate, man, to go this way, when this is the way that God came to you?”- Saint Augustine of Hippo, “Exposition 11, Sermon 1 on Psalm 30” In Chapter 5 (“Becoming the Gift the World Needs and You Need”) of […]
It take courage to listen with our whole heart to the tick of God’s timing rather than march to the loud beat of our fears.”- Ann Voskamp “It [time] looks like a river of Nows. Unbounded. Broken free.”- C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 4 of The Broken Way by noting […]
“Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.”- Walter Savage Lander “Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.”- Proverbs 16:24 Ed and Loretta Sheldon lived next door to my parents, Bill and Elinor, for about ten years. Ed drove semis for […]
“It’s the quantum physics of God: Your one broken heart always splits God’s hear in two. You never cry alone.”- Ann Voskamp In Chapter 4 (“How to Break Your Heart in Two”) of The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp notes that times occur when you forget there’s any light in living or in your soul. Remembering […]
“Ultimately, it comes down to this, that the real cause of our trouble is failure to realize our union with Christ.”- Martyn Lloyd Jones, Spiritual Depression: It’s Causes and Cures, 1965 “But now in Christ Jesus you who were once far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. For he himself is […]
“All our brokenness meets in the mystery of Christ’s brokenness and givenness — and becomes the miracle of abundance.”- Ann Voskamp “I say to you, unless a grain of wheat fall into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”- John 12:24 (NIV) In Chapter 3 (“When You […]
“There’s a cupping grace to it — how remembering becomes a healing. We welcome remembering . . . hold remembering, we let remembering wrap around us and carry us like a dance that need not end.”- Ann Voskamp As Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 2 of The Broken Way, she observes there are a thousand raw […]
“In His last hours, in His abandonment . . . He [Jesus] breaks the temptation to self-protect- – and gives the vulnerability of Himself.”- Ann Voskamp Ann Voskamp continues Chapter 2 of The Broken Way by describing a dare for the next leg of her journey. Eucharisteo comprised the first leg. However, the second leg leads […]
“This is always the choice: pain demands to be felt — or it will demand you feel nothing at all.”- Ann Voskamp In Chapter 2 (“Re-Membering Your Broken Pieces”) of The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp observes that we never stop hoping for the best. Hence, we wait for the best in life like it got […]