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Giving Thanks in the Small Things
Some days I pick up a camera and it’s a hammer. The lens is my ink, for cameras have sensor eyes, and pixels record. I slide it into a pocket, a thin point-and-shoot, and find another way to chronicle,...
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The Broken Way: Why Love Is Worth Breaking Your Heart
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. ~ C. S. Lewis “I’ve got more than sixty years of evidence that every day looks better...
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The Broken Way: Breaking Into Being Real
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 I’d spent the afternoon with Mama at her...
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The Broken Way: How Do We Live This One Broken Life?
Register Today for The Broken Way Online Bible Study! Ask someone to read aloud or summarize the following paragraphs in order to focus the group’s thoughts on this session’s topic. Ann’s mother was in...
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The Broken Way: Love Is a Roof for All Our Brokenness
Our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off… is… the truest index of our real situation. — C. S. Lewis When the Farmer comes in...
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From Broken to Free… A Story (and an Introduction)
Editor’s Note: Hey there, OBS Friends! We just came through The Broken Way study together and our team loved it so much that we don’t want it to be over! We hope you finish strong this week!...
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Amaryllis Grace: Joy is Worth the Wait
Editor’s Note: Welcome to Sit & Listen Saturdays at Devotionals Daily! Enjoy reading as well as listening to this message today from One Thousand Gifts Devotional by Ann Voskamp, read by Ann...
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Thinking Grace
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise — the fruit of lips that openly profess His name. — Hebrews 13:15 When the rope pulls tight, Levi holds on — and it looks...
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A Return to Glory and Grace: God’s Wild, Secretive Plan
From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story. Satan, he wanted more. More power, more glory. Ultimately, in his essence, Satan is an ingrate. And he sinks his venom into the heart of...
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The Opportunity for Great Joy
Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. — James 1:2 “What in the world were you thinking? How many times have we said no running? I am just…”...
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Dark Grace: God Wastes Nothing
In Him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will. — Ephesians 1:11 When the night sky frays to day,...
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Be the Gift: Jesus Believes in You
Editor’s Note: Ann Voskamp, in One Thousand Gifts encouraged readers to live a life of thanksgiving and to chronicle the gifts from God in their everyday lives. In The Broken Way, she reminded us that...
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The Love in Givenness
The Love in Givenness The happiness of givenness is a balm that works its healing even days and weeks later, and givenness does not define or prove our value but lets us feel the defining value of...
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Risky Living {Ann Voskamp}
Risky Living But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. — 2 Corinthians 12:9 When my dad called this morning, he said his farming friend, Alan...
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Cruciform When we walk in the back door from Sunday service, from the breaking of bread and thick intimacy of exchange, there’s this black pen lying on the table. I pick up the pen and turn my wrist...
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Unashamed Brokenness
Unashamed Brokenness So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me His prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God. — 2 Timothy 1:8 I get to lie...
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Thanking God for Yadah Abundance
It is a good thing to give thanks [yadah] unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High. — Psalm 92:1 KJV “Whatever.” The Wednesday morning before folks eat turkey and pie and browse...
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The Opportunity for Great Joy
Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. — James 1:2 “What in the world were you thinking? How many times have we said no running? I am just…”...
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Full Bodied Grace
“Do you understand what I have done for you?” He asked them… “Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.” — John 13:12, John 13:14 Jesus is about...
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One Thousand Gifts: Attitude of Gratitude
Bible Study of the Week: Ann Voskamp’s a farm girl. That book she scratched out, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where YouAre, is about what you really want. Joy is possible. Right where...
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