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One Thousand Gifts: A Dare To Live Fully Right Where You Are (2011)

by Ann Voskamp(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0310321913 (ISBN13: 9780310321910)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Zondervan

review 1: Pg30 "i'm never going to see those black haired boys under straw brimmed hats fish off their bamboo rafts... the mist rising behind over the karst formations, surreal and dark...""Eucharisteo" - thanksgivingCharis- graceChara- joyPg 44 "when one is thirsty one quenches one's thirst by drinking, not by reading books which treat of this condition. If we are dying of thirst, passively reading books about water quenches little; the only way to quench the parched mouth is to close the book and dip the hand into the water and bring it to the lips. If we thirst, we'll have to drink. I would have to do something."Pg 49 "Because the picking up of the pen isn't painful and ink can be cheap medicine."Pg 55 c s Lewis "if you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happi... moreness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad." Pg 56 practice is the hardest part of learning" "I like finding you like this.Crazy like this?Perfect like this. You being happy in all these little things that God gives. It makes me very happy. "Pg 59 "The only thing that can changes, the world, is this-all His love.""I am bell and He is sure wind, and He moves and I am rung""Prayer without ceasing is only possible in a life of continual thanks""God only desires that are so clean to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness. For all of the things our minds can think about God, it is thinking upon his goodness that pleases him most and brings the most profit to our soul."Everyday thanksgiving "If clinging to his goodness is the highest form of prayer, then seeing His goodness with the pin, with the shutter, with the word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable.""Life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change""You're the one in dire need of time, that thing we can't buy, what we sell of ourselves to get more of what we think we want, but we sacrifice to seemingly game. They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time""I know you, the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life. God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense."pg 65 "Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering into the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing...Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away." pg 76 "The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction. The body and soul can synchronize." pg 84 "But awakening ot joy awakens to pain. Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living. Pages of the gratitude journal fill endlessly. Yet I know it in the vein and the visceral: Life is loss. Everyday, the gnawing... What will I lose? Health? Comfort? Hope? Eventually, I am guaranteed to lose every earthly thing I have every possessed. When will i lose? Today? In a few weeks? How much time have I got before the next loss? Who will I lose? and that definite: I will lose every single person I have ever loved. Either abruptly or eventually. All human relationships end in loss. Am I prepared for that? Every step I take forward in my life is a loss of something in my life and I live the waiting: How and of what will I be emptied today?" What is a world of certain loss, is grace? pg 136 " But if we don't intentionally commit to the hard practice of seeing, don't we die in barren wilderness? Anger, frustration, emptiness? pg 147 "Belief is a verb, something that you do. The very real, everyday action of trusting. Then a true saving faith is a faith that gives thanks, a faith that sees God, a faith that deeply trusts? And trust is that: work. The work of trusting love.I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier. Easier to let a mind run wild with the worry than to exercise discipline, to reign her in, slip the blinders on and train her to walk steady ahead. Are stress and worry evidences of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God? To stay in love? .... Isn't joy worth the effort of trust? pg 159 " There is no joy without trust! ....I stress over the trite, a phone call, what's for dinner, a deadline. And there are far longer, higher bridges: where is a child's heart headed? Am I living God's best for this life or am I bankrupting any legacy of faith? What misery lurks in the next twenty-four hours and the next? Stress can be an addiction and worry can be our lunge or control and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ. pg 169 "Expectations kill relationships. And I've known expectations as a disease, silent killer heaping her burdens on the shoulders of a relationship until a soul burst a pulmonary and dies. Expectations kill relationships - especially with God. And that's what a child doesn't have: this whole edifice of expectation. Without expectations, what can topple the surprising wonder of the moment? pg 197 "Echaristeo has taught me to trust that there is always enough God. He has no end. He calls us o serve, and it is Him whom we serve, but He, very God, Kneels down to serve us a we serve. The servant-hearted never serve alone. Spend the whole of your one wild and beautiful life investing in many lives, and God simply will not be outdone. God extravagantly pays back everything we give away and exactly in the currency that is not of this world but the one we yearn for: Joy in Him. pg 199 "I see how it is our very presence in each other's lives that make us the gift. It is by the very function of our being, not our doing, that we are the beloved of God. And so we become the love of God, blessing those He loves. .... I will bless you.. and you will be a blessing (Gen 12:2)" "Empty to fill"
review 2: It was an interesting and poetic style of writing; and didn't always flow very well. However, I enjoyed this particular book because of the subject matter, but I read it in small chunks because the style was not that captivating for me as some books are. It inspired and challenged me to give thanks in all things... the good, the bad, the happy, the sad, and all the tiny insignificant things that are gifts from God that often go unnoticed. less

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