One Thousand Gifts / One Thousand Gifts Devotional

by Ann Voskamp

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. 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. Following the New York Times Bestseller, One Thousand Gifts -- a guide to giving thanks and finding joy in all aspects of life -- Ann Voskamp returns with this companion One Thousand Gifts Devotional. How in the world do we find real joy and experience grace in the midst of deadlines, debt, drama, and all these daily duties? These sixty reflections, each one like a singular tree, invite you to take wing into a forest of graces. Glimpses of grace that will lead you into your own lifestyle of Christ-focus and communion. Into how your desperate need of Him every moment is wildly met with His extravagant love for you. As practical as profound, this devotional offers real life transformation with intentional space to begin the radical habit of thanking God for your own one thousand gifts. The endless grace of our overflowing God, it's meant to be experienced directly. The most important thing is simply to begin. Pick up a pen and this book -- and change your life. Take the dare to fully live! God's just waiting to bless you with the greatest gift of all---more and more of Himself....

Genres: Christian

487 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2013

About the author

Ann Voskamp is a farmer's wife, the home-educating mama to a half-dozen exuberant kids, and author of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, a New York Times sixty-week bestseller..
Named by Christianity Today as one of fifty women most shaping culture and the church today, she's a global advocate for needy children with Compassion International, a loser of library books, a stirrer of soup, a loud laugher, a kid snuggler, a Jesus lover and honestly, a bit of a mess. It’s okay really. Grace is the most amazing of all.
Her online journal, one of the top 10 most widely read Christian blogs online, is a relief of quiet vulnerability and an oasis of sacred, seeing God in the everyday ugly beautiful.

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Reviews

[Carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you Ann for refocusing me to thankfulness!

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. Voskamp's writing style is fascinating for the length of a poem. But a whole book? Many poetic moments, but a lot of annoying swirling participles to muddle through to get to the poetic moments.

[Mubanga]

Wow! What an amazing book. Ann is a detailed, descriptive and tender hearted writer. This book blessed my life and strengthened my convictions and my faith. It is not only a must read, but a book to return to time and again., Thank you Ann, you are one of the gifts I have received in this lifetime.

[Wamaitha · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good devotional book that changes your mind perspective, transforms you and transfigured you in to a life of thankfulness and contentedness. (Too much unnecessary narration of farm life. It needs patience to go through a devotion)

[Candace Simar · Rating 2 out of 5]

not a big fan. Too sentimental though parts of it were good.

[Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing book, a learning primer on gratitude.

[Adriana Elena · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hardly give 3 stars. Could be a better book. Some chapters are good, some are like the author just wrote some random words, with no message.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

This devotional was so good. It was a good companion to the book. Broke it down into daily reading.
Highly recommend this!

[Shannon Belk · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book really resonated with me. I bought a notebook and have started my gratitude journal. “Being joyful doesn’t produce gratitude. Gratitude produces joy.”

[Mandy Alexander · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very difficult to read. There were certain devotionals that will change your perspective on things but there is a lot of unnecessary narration which makes you have to reread.

[Leiloni Schulz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book helps you to look at the positive things in life, and be grateful for both the good and the bad.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

AWESOME❤️❤️❤️

[Lone · Rating 2 out of 5]

A rather big disappointment. I thought it would be an encouragement to be more grateful. Too many words in lyrical style sometimes without content.

[Claudine · Rating 5 out of 5]

So grateful to have found this devotional!

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love all of Ann’s books. This one is not my favorite of the ones I have read (The Broken Way and The Way of Abundance are my absolute favorites thus far), but it was still a delightful, soul-stirring and poetic read.

[Floyd · Rating 5 out of 5]

The path to a fuller life in Jesus is eucharisteo--thanksgiving and gratitude. This is an engaging book not only for the poetical descriptions of the writer but for the lessons in living out eucharisteo. This is a path I desire to walk in more in the coming days and years!

[Bobbie Barker Ulmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is uplifting and inspiring.