“Love runs through us through veins of suffering.”- Ann Voskamp Ann Voskamp continues Chapter 13 of The Broken Way by reminding us all who love ultimately suffer. Most noteworthy, when God beckoned “you shall love your neighbor,” He knew we’d also keep suffering in keeping His commandment to love. Still, Jesus gave that command. Author […]
“Love like there’s no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.”- Max Lucado “Christ goes to the cross, and we are invited to follow to the same cross. Not because it is the cross, but because it is His.”- Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering (1986) In Chapter 13 (“The Inconvenient Truth No One […]
“Growth only happens through the seed broken open.”- Ann Voskamp Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 12 of The Broken Way by noting what happens when you commit to loving someone. When you make that commitment, you commit to losing a part of yourself. In other words, Ann states, you commit to dying. As a result, Ms. […]
“Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, by saying: Repent, intended that the whole life of believers should be repentance.”- Martin Luther, Ninety-five Theses “Repent and believe in the gospel.”- Mark 1:15 In Chapter 12 (“Breaking Your Brokenness”) of The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp begins by citing Timothy Keller. Pastor Keller once wrote: “The joy of […]
“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 […]