One Thousand Gifts

by Voskamp, Ann

• ISBN13: 9780310321910
• ISBN10: 0310321913
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-17
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

Just like you, Ann Voskamp hungers to live her one life well. Forget the bucket lists that have us escaping our everyday lives for exotic experiences. 'How,' Ann wondered, 'do we find joy in the midst of deadlines, debt, drama, and daily duties? What does the Christ-life really look like when your days are gritty, long---and sometimes even dark? How is God even here?'In One Thousand Gifts, Ann invites you to embrace everyday blessings and embark on the transformative spiritual discipline of chronicling God's gifts. It's only in this expressing of gratitude for the life we already have, we discover the life we've always wanted ... a life we can take, give thanks for, and break for others. We come to feel and know the impossible right down in our bones: we are wildly loved --- by God. Let Ann's beautiful, heart-aching stories of the everyday give you a way of seeing that opens your eyes to ordinary amazing grace, a way of being present to God that makes you deeply happy, and a way of living that is finally fully alive. Come live the best dare of all!

Table of Contents

an emptier, fuller life	p. 9
a word to live ... and die by	p. 24
first flight	p. 42
a sanctuary of time	p. 62
What in the world, in all this world, is grace?	p. 79
what do you want? the place of seeing god	p. 102
seeing through the glass	p. 122
how will he not also?	p. 141
go lower	p. 163
empty to fill	p. 182
the joy of intimacy	p. 201
afterword	p. 223
acknowledgments	p. 229
Bible translations	p. 231
notes	p. 233
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